omg speaking of bronchitis and pneumonia, literally after posting my post to M last night, I got a call from my husband who was at work. he was having trouble breathing, bad chest pain, nausea, coughing, etc. i told him to go to the ER immediately as he works close to one of the best hospitals in the country. he told me if he goes to the ER from work he'll have to see the city doctor when hes done and deal with all this paperwork for the city, so he agreed to drive home, it was like 10 30 at night and the kids were asleep so our neighbor/best friend came over and sat in the living room to make sure in case anything happened to them or they woke up someone was there.
so we go to the ER closest to us, which is not the best ER in the world, its actually horrible but we went there bc i wanted to be close to the kids in case something happened and i had to run home. they treated my husband like crap, wouldn't let me back in the room w/him. the triage nurse actually said to him verbatim "you are a big boy, you don't need your wife back here with you." so basically the dr looked at him for 5 mins and told him he has a cold and to use decongestants which he has been using for the past 3 weeks to no avail. he told dr this but dr wouldn't listen. (he was texting me all this the whole time he was back there). He repeatedly asked the nurses for me but they all said NO. so, as the triage nurse was leaving, i stopped her and asked her who i could complain to regarding the terrible care my husband was receiving. she was taken aback when i told her all of his symptoms and what my husband was texting me was going on back there. she said she would go back and talk to the dr. well, as she went back, they had already discharged my husband with "prescriptions" for all OTC meds he has already been taking for the last 3 weeks! my husband was so upset and frustrated. i told him we were going to the other hospital er (great great hospital, where my kids were born and part of the healthcare system that our primary physicians are through). I called our friend who was just working on job apps and said he could stay as long as we needed so we went to the other ER, got seen right away, chest x rays, EKG, the whole nine yards and he has walking pneumonia. Yea, I was furious at the first ER.
This morning i called the first ER and filed a complaint i am so furious. no one messes with my husband like that. i am still so upset at how incompetent some people are. Dr's have this thing called Press-Ganey scores which are very important to them and in some cases, their salaries are affected by them. I will now be calling that company and ask to take a survey on this particular dr that saw my husband at the first ER. I am soooooooo soooooo mad. I am NEVER one to complain. I know ER drs and nurses have a hard job, lots of patients, and I believe we were there right around a shift change bc it was 10 30 when we got to the first ER, but still. you don't just send away a man with chest pain and trouble breathing without so much as a simple EKG at the very least!
sorry just needed to vent!
Well she had some nerve. :stormingmad: I would report her, too. Never heard of an ER that wouldn't let a wife in the examining room.
