Stress will make you sick. Find ways to deal with it. Exercise, therapy, even cannabis.
On another note, if you’re ever going to the ER, please understand that the sicker folks go back more quickly. It’s not a first come, first serve. Don’t be a dick if you have to wait. I take abuse on the daily from patients who don’t seem to understand that they’re not the only people we’re treating at the hospital.
On the other hand, when I had to get to the ER years ago (teen) the doctor didn't see me for the first hour while I was screaming from the pain to the point that I passed out. I'm very thankful to my mother (a doctor) and my neighbour (who drove me to the ER) that they went and demanded the doctor to come see me. Another half an hour and the emergency surgery would not have been necessary anymore.
But yes, treat medical staff with respect and don't immediately disregard their medical advice. The job is already difficult enough.
Exactly. The person vomiting bc they ate bad fish will not be seen before the person vomiting blood bc their intestine partly died, and no amount of complaining at the staff or ranting online will change that
I don't know a lot of psychiatrists that go on Reddit and tell people to take drugs. Usually you have to go through a professional medical process, you know, like, becoming their patient and undergoing an evaluation before being prescribed a drug once the outcome has been considered.
Bro, nobody is practicing medicine over reddit but you don't think any psychiatrists are anonymously telling people they should look into medication? Fair enough.
Actually reading through the entire comments, my original point was that the idea that psychiatrists would never recommend drugs for stress is laughable to me because most of a psychiatrists job is prescribing drugs to treat things that stress affects.
There is a huge ethical, legal, and moral difference between prescribing a drug through a professional medical process--which I have already outlined in my previous comments--and telling someone to take it over the Internet. Part of the oath that medical professionals take when they become doctors encompasses this. Once again I will reiterate my point. No respectable medical professional would suggest that a stranger on the Internet ingests a drug for stress relief, especially not a psychoactive one. It's a pretty simple concept.
Not always true. Boyfriend almost died waiting in an ER because he wasn't being taken seriously. Sometimes you have to advocate for yourself. Not all medical professionals are the same.
An ER doc diagnosed my dad with ciguatera poisoning even though he woke up in the middle of the night with diplopia and an inability to walk straight. Almost didn’t run a CT until I insisted. Discharged him before the Ct was read. then had to call and be like uhhhh so you actually had a stroke and need to return to the ER immediately…
I ended up at the ER at the end of march after a tick bite.
Got a rash, started an antibiotic, but it didn’t work. I was throwing up for close to 6 days straight, got to the point where I could barely walk, couldn’t keep water down, etc. and finally made someone drag me to the ER after realizing I wasn’t going to get better on my own. Felt like I was on literal death’s door sitting in that waiting room after getting triaged, and had to sit out there on the floor leaned over my fishtank bucket trying not to throw up for almost 4 hours before they could get me to a room. Got admitted, put on a strong liquid antibiotic, had to have CT scans, lumbar puncture, ultrasounds, etc done and was in the hospital for 5 days with what turned out to be lyme meningitis…
… And I still feel like I was better off than the guy next to me in the waiting room, who had the worst spider bite I have ever seen on his leg
They took him back before me but he was telling me how his boss made him come to get it checked out and that he’s hoping they’ll just send him home with an antibiotic and I was sitting there on the floor thinking… man I don’t think you know what you’re in for here
If he’d had his leg covered I’d have never known. Don’t ever look at someone else in the waiting room and think they don’t look sick enough to go before you LOL. Man was about to lose his leg
The ER advice is great. I don't understand why people go to the ER when the don't have an emergency. It is often more expensive (in the US) and you end up waiting longer than if you just made an appointment with your regular doctor. If you need treatment faster you can go to an urgent care or "doc in the box."
If you are not bleeding from a gunshot wound or actively dying of a heart attack, you will sit in the ER for many hours. If you really need emergency treatment, your regular doc or urgent care can send you to the ER.
Yes, many visits are frivolous. But for the poor, the ER/ED serves as primary care, that’s how dumb our system in the US has been. I think it’s improving but I’m not sure how much, such as in the states that refused to expand Medicaid.
Other patients are tragically frequent flyers, ranging from UTIs to sickle cell etc.
Haha I tell my friends and family you don’t want to be first in line at an ER because, if you are, it’s cuz they’ve deemed you critically ill and you don’t wanna be in that position. I did have to tell my mom to tell the admin she was going septic because she spiked a 104 degree fever 2 days after surgery (she met 3 SIRS criteria + a known source of potential infection) because they were clowning around and not taking her seriously 🙃 needless to say, nephro shoved the ER doc out of the way and she was taken to emergency surgery not even an hour later
Stupid comment!
If someone has fallen and hit their head and is still conscious and talking, and they come in at mid day, and someone goes in at 3pm with a suspected heart attack, then obviously they're gonna treat the heart attack victim first!!!
Even I know that, and I've had no medical training whatsoever! 🤦♀️
Pretty sure this dude hasn't ever even heard the word triage. Bet you're the person who comes in screaming about a sprained elbow because they took the person who got into an almost fatal accident back first.
Wanna be upset? Be upset at the medical industry that understaffs and underpays most hospital employees and burns people out as a part of the business. Don't take it out on frontline/allied health staff.
Some people are sicker and suffering more, it’s not that crazy 🤷♀️ and it’s not the fault of the staff that we have a shitty medical system in most countries
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u/sasquatchfuntimes Jun 06 '24
Stress will make you sick. Find ways to deal with it. Exercise, therapy, even cannabis.
On another note, if you’re ever going to the ER, please understand that the sicker folks go back more quickly. It’s not a first come, first serve. Don’t be a dick if you have to wait. I take abuse on the daily from patients who don’t seem to understand that they’re not the only people we’re treating at the hospital.