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Your worst hospital experience
Posted on 12/11/22 at 11:35 pm
Posted on 12/11/22 at 11:35 pm
I’ll start:
Three years ago, the family is on vacation in New Mexico/Arizona/Las Vegas.
The first half of the trip was for me. My wife isn’t much of an outdoors girl.
I spent three days in the desert, photographing, a little hiking, etc.
The fourth day, we go to Vegas. This is middle of July, it’s 105+ deg outside. We walk up and down the strip, etc. I started feeling fatigued, but not too bad. The feeling got worse the next two days, and my chest felt funny. I go to a walk in medical clinic. They discover my heart was skipping a beat every fourth beat. I never had irregular heart beat before. He thought I may have had a heart attack.
He sends me to the hospital that the clinic was associated with, the Sunrise Hospital. That sounds like a nice place.
Holy shite, I get there and discover it’s an inter-city hospital. The ER didn’t have private rooms or even curtains. It was one big room with chairs and beds, all filled with crack and methheads looking for a fix. People just puking and bleeding on the floor where they sat. I finally told my wife to just go back to the room while I waited on the blood results.
Granted, I was treated like royalty because I had insurance and paid my co-pay in cash.
Come to find out I was dehydrated and had a panic attack. As soon as the doctor told me I didn’t have a heart attack, it was like a switch went off. I felt perfect instantly.
I was back at the room, went out drinking and gambling that night.
TLTR - if you ever in Vegas, do not go to Sunrise hospital ER.
Three years ago, the family is on vacation in New Mexico/Arizona/Las Vegas.
The first half of the trip was for me. My wife isn’t much of an outdoors girl.
I spent three days in the desert, photographing, a little hiking, etc.
The fourth day, we go to Vegas. This is middle of July, it’s 105+ deg outside. We walk up and down the strip, etc. I started feeling fatigued, but not too bad. The feeling got worse the next two days, and my chest felt funny. I go to a walk in medical clinic. They discover my heart was skipping a beat every fourth beat. I never had irregular heart beat before. He thought I may have had a heart attack.
He sends me to the hospital that the clinic was associated with, the Sunrise Hospital. That sounds like a nice place.
Holy shite, I get there and discover it’s an inter-city hospital. The ER didn’t have private rooms or even curtains. It was one big room with chairs and beds, all filled with crack and methheads looking for a fix. People just puking and bleeding on the floor where they sat. I finally told my wife to just go back to the room while I waited on the blood results.
Granted, I was treated like royalty because I had insurance and paid my co-pay in cash.
Come to find out I was dehydrated and had a panic attack. As soon as the doctor told me I didn’t have a heart attack, it was like a switch went off. I felt perfect instantly.
I was back at the room, went out drinking and gambling that night.
TLTR - if you ever in Vegas, do not go to Sunrise hospital ER.
Posted on 12/11/22 at 11:44 pm to theantiquetiger
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inter-city hospital
Almost
Posted on 12/11/22 at 11:46 pm to Tyga Woods
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Tyga Woods
Better than those intra-city hospitals…
Posted on 12/12/22 at 12:17 am to RummelTiger
I saw a "Bad Strip Club" experience thread right underneath this one. I wonder if there is any overlap...
Posted on 12/12/22 at 12:22 am to LSUGrad9295
Having my ER doctor miss my perforated ulcer. Thankfully the next hospital caught it and I had a successful surgery.
Now, as an ER doctor, having to tell someone their kid is dead. Absolutely sucks.
Now, as an ER doctor, having to tell someone their kid is dead. Absolutely sucks.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 12:36 am to cwil177
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Now, as an ER doctor, having to tell someone their kid is dead. Absolutely sucks.
Yeah, when watching Law and Order reruns they make it look easy...but I can't imagine having to do that.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 5:27 am to theantiquetiger
Went to er with one testicle the size of an orange. Er doc misdiagnosed it as a simple infection. Went home with antibiotics. Next day, testicle was the size of a grapefruit. Went to different er where the correctly diagnosed it as testicular torsion too far gone to save. Sent to OR for removal of said testicle.
That was a shitty weekend.
That was a shitty weekend.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 5:50 am to go_tigres
That’s why you have two of them.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 6:00 am to theantiquetiger
Sharing a room at the old Lady of the Lake with an old guy who smoked.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 6:00 am to tigerinthebueche
Six years old, Christmas eve morning. Decided to start my own fire and ended up with third degree burns on 30% of my body. Laid on a ER table with just a sheet on screaming for four hours in Marksville hospital. Then rushed to Baton Rouge General. I had to much pain medicine in me from the idiots in Marksville ER, so they had to cut a main vein from my left leg from my ankle to my hip. No pain meds. I passed out but not before smelling burning flesh from the tool they where using and being strapped to a table.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 6:17 am to Potchafa
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so they had to cut a main vein from my left leg from my ankle to my hip
That makes no sense unless the leg was so badly damaged they suspected compartment syndrome.
Third degree burns over 30% of your body though, holy smokes that's rough! Rehab must have sucked.
This post was edited on 12/12/22 at 12:41 pm
Posted on 12/12/22 at 6:19 am to go_tigres
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go_tigres
And no official name change request for uno_cajone_tigre
Posted on 12/12/22 at 6:20 am to NC_Tigah
I was wearing jogging pants, and the elastic band around my ankle had melted and cut circulation off to my foot. I almost lost my foot. My entire left leg was burned.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 6:31 am to theantiquetiger
Holding my mom’s hand while she died.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 6:42 am to theantiquetiger
Last year in April I was diagnosed with Covid-19 after over a week of running fever. Throughout that week, I went to the urgent care and my Primary care Doctor and repeatedly tested negative for Covid. When I finally tested positive I had already developed double lung pneumonia. I got an antibody infusion and the fever went away but my oxygen level kept dropping by the day. I finally went to the emergency room when I realized I couldn't make it 20 feet to the bathroom without getting out of breath. My oxygen level was in the low 70's. I got a CT of my chest and they discovered what appeared to be an air pocket around my heart. I was admitted to the hospital on oxygen and they told me that I needed to have chest tubes put in to get rid of the air pocket. I remember getting wheeled to the operating room and as soon as they told me to take a deep breath of the anesthesia, I couldn't breathe. I remember panicking and then the room went black. I woke up in ICU on a ventilator but they never put in the chest tubes. All I could think was, "I have covid and I'm on a ventilator. I know how this story ends. This sucks because I can't even see my wife or kids before I die." Obviously I recovered and was discharged but thinking I was going to die without seeing my family again was a terrible experience.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 6:44 am to theantiquetiger
Being told my son didn't survive the car accident.
Worst day of my life.
Worst day of my life.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 6:46 am to cwil177
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Having my ER doctor miss my perforated ulcer.
My dad had one of those that separated and stomach contents spilled into this body.
I was a little kid and it crushed me.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 7:02 am to Tempratt
I just want to find the MF who has the monopoly on supplying every single hospital with the chair, bed/couch and TV in their delivery/post delivery rooms. Like damn, for the money people money spend, can they go to home furniture once every decade? 
Posted on 12/12/22 at 7:11 am to theantiquetiger
My brother has a nasty scar on his chin.
When he was a kid he busted it open and when my mom took him to the ER in rural Texas in the 80’s, the doctors weren’t available because “the cowboys are on.”
So my mom took him home and stitched/taped it up best she could.
When he was a kid he busted it open and when my mom took him to the ER in rural Texas in the 80’s, the doctors weren’t available because “the cowboys are on.”
So my mom took him home and stitched/taped it up best she could.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 7:35 am to theantiquetiger
I had colitis about 35 years ago. One night I had cramps and bleeding from my rectum. Went to the ER. Was told to remove pants and underwear and wait for the doctor. He came in with 6 medical students. Bad enough having one person examine your rectum. 7 is a bit much.
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