re: ER waiting rooms

If I have to go to the ER for anything I just put on my ICE hat and shirt. Cuts the wait time down by 90%

Had to go to the ER this past Tuesday.

Had severe testicular pain and a massively swollen teste. I have to give credit to Our Lady of The Lake hospital. They had me in a room and on morphine within 10min.
Then had a ultrasound done and had surgery to fix my testicular torsion within a few hours.

Overall, I was very impressed.

The last time I went to an ER, I went about 2 am for what turned out to be a broke collarbone. I sat there and waited for 3 hours, then ended up leaving. The hospital sent me a bill for $12 for it.

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Why wouldn’t you go to a walk in clinic

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Because they ask for Insurance and Money

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Lady on the side of me says she’s been here four hours —- no one here “looks emergent”.

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It is free care.

For every actually sick or injured person who enters an ER, there are 10 other people who are there to waste everyone’s time.

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I’m sitting in the ER waiting room as my dad is in a holding area with a brain bleed (ct done at local hospital and send to a bigger hospital). .

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not saying this isn't true, but it's difficult for me (as an ER RN) to comprehend this. if a brain bleed was confirmed by a CT, the smaller hospital should have arranged transportation via a private ambulance and gone right to the treatment area (not waiting room)

were you discharged and told to go by car to another hospital?

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I’m sitting in the ER waiting room as my dad is in a holding area with a brain bleed

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Lost both of my grandparents to complications from brain bleeds. Good luck with all that.