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I am in the ER waiting room with my very ill wife. There is a self absorbed a—hole watching anti-racist and lefty videos on his phone with the volume way up. Guess he never heard of headphones or common courtesy. "You know, Scotland has its own martial arts. Yeah, it's called Fuck You. It's mostly just head butting and then kicking people when they're on the ground." - Charlie MacKenzie (Mike Myers in "So I Married an Axe Murderer") | ||
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Shall Not Be Infringed |
No matter how you slice it, it seems 50% are consistently on the wrong side of good. May God's Grace bless you, and especially your wife, with strength and healing. ____________________________________________________________ If Some is Good, and More is Better.....then Too Much, is Just Enough !! Trump 47....Make America Great Again! "May Almighty God bless the United States of America" - parabellum 7/26/20 Live Free or Die! | |||
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| Jack of All Trades, Master of Nothing  |
The waiting room an be tough. Once had one patient taze another while waiting. Be nice, make the staff aware, maybe there is something they can do that will save you and your wife from confrontation. My daughter can deflate your daughter's soccer ball. | |||
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I wouldn’t get involved in an actual confrontation. It’s never worth it. I was just really annoyed. "You know, Scotland has its own martial arts. Yeah, it's called Fuck You. It's mostly just head butting and then kicking people when they're on the ground." - Charlie MacKenzie (Mike Myers in "So I Married an Axe Murderer") | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven!  |
Go to front desk and let them know and let security handle it. Some people are just completely clueless in their own little bubble. Was at a dental appointment for my son at oral surgeon and this idiot was watching videos on their phone with the volume blasting too and I just sat down and said loudly "REALLLLY???" in their direction and they took the hint and turned the volume down. | |||
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| Internet Guru |
Public spaces are barely tolerable. It's the humans. | |||
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Only the strong survive |
In 2005, I watched a person that had come in with a bad cut and was using compression to stop the bleeding. After about 20 minutes, they decided to go to another hospital which was at least 30+ minute drive since they were not getting any help. 41 | |||
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ER waiting rooms can be a miserable place . There are two ways to bypass the system . If you arrive by ambulance you go straight through . The other way is to walk up to the desk and tell them you have chest pain . They whisk you right in . | |||
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Phone strikes again  What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone | |||
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Notice none of these type rants starts, "The guy next to me was reading a book?" | |||
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I work in transport EMS. You don't go straight in. First off, we may say in our radio report "this patient is appropriate for triage". Secondly, if there are no rooms and you are ambulatory, you are going to get off loaded into a wheelchair and taken up front....to triage. Thirdly, you may get placed in a hospital bed, and parked on the wall in the hall....directly by triage. Any big city hospital (I've been to Detroit's major hospital on many a Saturday night) if you come in with a crew, you are getting a bed in the hall unless you are actively in the process of dying. I've only once done an ER to ER transfer there and had a patient go directly to a bay. __________________________ Writing the next chapter that I've been looking forward to. | |||
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| Savor the limelight |
Ah yes, I remember Hallway Bed #4 quite well. | |||
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Don't Panic |
ERs get all types. The one by me has a metal detector. No big deal, but when I go to the main entrance, there isn't one and you can get to the ER that way as well. I asked the policeman at the metal detector about that the next time I came, and he said "The people we catch with this, don't think that way." | |||
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That's what I said . You go in . You're not sitting in the waiting room watching some thug bleed out and listening to kids hollering because their Mama treats the place like a family reunion and dragged everybody down there . I walked up to the desk one night with Tachycardia and within two minutes I was in the back getting an EKG and trying to calm the young Intern that thought I was dying . Poor guy kept running into the room asking if I was in any pain and then would run out again . | |||
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| Jack of All Trades, Master of Nothing |
Um, no. Arriving by ambulance does not guarantee a patient a bed. If we're full and the patient isn't dying, most likely they'll be taken to the lobby, unloaded in a wheelchair, triaged and made to wait in order of acuity just like everyone else in the waiting room. Chest pain? Not a guarantee either. You get registered, have an EKG done almost immediately; if the doc sees something concerning on the EKG after reviewing it most likely you'll be taken straight back to a room. Normal, you'll be triaged and made to wait in order of acuity just like everyone else in the waiting room. My daughter can deflate your daughter's soccer ball. | |||
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| Thank you Very little  |
My dad does that at times, he lives alone so nobody to bother during the day, plus Fox News is always on the tv. I've had to mention it to him when he's at the house for a birthday party or just family dinners, he'll sit in a recliner and out of habit just lean into watching videos on the phone with the volume at 10+. he doesn't do it to be rude or inconsiderate, it's just the way he does it, even got him head sets so he can blast his ears with it. | |||
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Not in my case . My only symptom was high heart rate . No pain or anything else . I had a bed immediately . | |||
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When my BP went to 59/42 with a reaction to antibiotics there was a little movement. "the soul of a dog is pure" | |||
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| Experienced Slacker |
Had a real crazy next to us in the ER lounge last time we had to go in. She was just gibbering away and occasionally looking at me. I asked "are you on the phone?" thinking maybe ear buds...she looked at me like I was the nut bar and said "Fuck no!" Then she proceeds to go outside, and bring a medium sized dog in...which the staff handled quick, but jeepers. Oh, and of course her face was full of fishing tackle that she put there on purpose. | |||
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| Only the strong survive |
I never heard that one before....its going to be hard to beat!   41 | |||
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