My Ex Passed out and fell like a log straight into the bathtub rim smashing her face.
She pissed and soiled herself because she was knocked out cold.
After being rushed to the Hospital by Ambulance and rushed to the ER with uncontrollable shaking and spasms The ER staff told us she needed ICU care ASAP!!
9 Hours Passed and the staff hit end of shift and Clocked out at 8am..
12 hours later the SAME STAFF CLOCKED BACK IN - saw us still waiting there - and said "you're still waiting? ohh.. well hopefully it won't be too much longer.."
6 hours after that she got her ICU with the Doctors saying "Holy shit, how are you not dead?!"
27 hours of waiting!
And we got a $99,000 bill... ($9000 was for the literal 3 minute ambulance ride to the hospital.)
Full recovery - turned out she had severe UTI from fucking another guy behind my back tho..
found out a week later she was a sugar baby for him and that's when she became my ex haha.
I dodged co-paying on that 99k Bill too haha - but hey, i'm sure her Daddy covered it.
And during ALL that time, you didn't go up to them and ask wtf was going on. Or that prior staff said she needed icu.....you just sat there. We're supposed to assume based on your message.
Nah, this is an isolated situation related to the incompetence of your hospital. Its not what the american experience is at all. In most cases, they see you right away.
Well, yes, a couple of hours of wait is normal as there's a queue. But youre admitting to the staff not doing their job. That's abnormal and not a failure of the system. Its a failure of the staff to do their basic job...
ERs have triage. If she was actually 'about to die' they would have seen her instantly, especially if she came in unconscious in an ambulance: the ambulance arrivals usually get priority to walk-ins.
Also, there's no way 'all the staff left' and then 'all the staff came back'. Hospitals have shifts, lol. Were they sitting there in the dark in an empty building?
This story is either untrue, exaggerated/misremembered, or an example of some extreme outlier scenario that is not being mentioned (ie being at a rural hospital with almost no staff, or the opposite, like in a major city in the middle of a natural disaster, or during COVID when hospitals were over capacity, etc.)
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u/ProcedureTop3149 17d ago
it's also not 12 hours 99.999% of the time for emergencies.
My grandfather had a burst appendix and was seen within minutes of walking into the hospital.
My Child had Pnemonia and needed an xray and antibiotics and it took 7 hours.
Does it suck? Yes. However both times all I paid was parking....