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Posted by Dave on Thu Sep 20 22:43:22 2018, in response to Re: Smoking gun AGAINST Dr. Ford?, posted by bingbong on Thu Sep 20 22:20:00 2018. True story - back in 2007 I was getting ready for bed when I was hit with abdominal pain so severe I doubled over in pain. My wife, a former 20-year critical care nurse, rushed me to a local teaching hospital. After sitting in chairs for 30 minutes while she checked me in, a nurse triaged me and I was rolled in a wheelchair to an examining room. A few minutes later a doctor came in and examined me; said he'd order a shot of Demerol to relieve the pain; and run some tests.I got my shot and about 15 minutes later a lab tech came in and drew blood. I waited. And waited. And waited. I could hear the doctor in the rooms on either side of mine examining homeless patients with sore throats. At this point I had been there close to 3 hours and hadn't seen the doctor again. I was feeling somewhat better and walked up to the nurses station and asked why the doctor hadn't been back to see me. Waiting for test results, was their answer. I asked them to please check if they were back and Surprise! they were already there. The doctor came in about 15 minutes later and told me I had probably had a gall bladder attack. I asked why it took 3 hours for him to get back and he tells me about the other patients. I ask him since when does a middle-age patient with sever abdominal pain take a back seat to a patient with a sore throat? He starts giving me a bullshit excuse and I ask him to get out; I'll see my surgeon tomorrow and I'm leaving. He advises against it and my wife - who is mad enough to chew nails at this point - tells him to either sign discharge orders or we're leaving AMA (Against Medical Advise). He signs and we leave. Two weeks later I had my gall bladder removed...at a different hospital. |
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