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I took my 'significant other' to the emergency room at St. Anthony's Hospital a few months ago.
He was expreiencing difficult breathing. A nurse put an oxygen apparatus in his nose.
We waited in the room for 4 hours before anyone came in to see him.
It was freezing in the room and they closed the curtain between the room and the nurses desks.
They took him for a chest xray and said he had fluid on his lungs.
We stayed in the refrigerated room for two more hours.
Then they did an EKG and we sat for three more hours. After reading that decided that he had a heart attack and DIDN'T have fkuid on his lungs. They finally took him to a room.
Then they later said he didn't have a heart attack.
They wanted to do an echocardiogram. He was kept in the hospital for four days. On the fourth day they did NOTHING and no doctor came in.
Then he was discharged and they told him to come back, as an outpatient, for the echo. Why couldn't they do that while he was there for four days?
A couple of months later he had the same symptoms (couldn't breathe).
EMT took him to emergency. This time they decided he DID have fluid on his lungs and put him on a respirator. Now they say he has heart failure and a urinary tract infection.
When he was ready to go home, they couldn't find his pants, shirt, underwear, jacket , shoes and had no idea where his home meds were that EMT brought to the hospital with him. They tried to locate his belongings at the emergency room and then tried pharmacy and several other departments and could not locate them. Finally, the kid that was to escort him out went down to emergency and came back with his jacket (which had been wadded up in a ball) and a pair of name brand sneakers. The sneakers were not his and they never found his sneakers, which were his only comfortable shoes.
You would think they would have some kind of system to itemize and store a patients belongings.
Who is driving the bus, for heaven's sake??
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