WarChild

What a fucking joke.

So two days ago I start having lower chest / abdominal pain .. So I go to the doctor. He flips his lid, wants me to go in an ambulance to the hospital. So I tell him I'm 5 minutes from the hospital, I drove myself to the doctor and I'll be fine getting to the hospital. A small argument errupts, and in the end I make it to the hospital under my own power.

5 Hours of tests, x-rays and monitoring and my heart is fine. Lungs too. Still in pain, but apparently not dying. Last thing the doctor does is order an ultra sound.

Yesterday the hospital calls and books me this morning at 9:00 AM for an ultra sound. I go, get in right away and it they send me back to Emergency.

11:30 rolls around, I'm still in the ER. I'm not hooked up to anything, not being monitored and no doctor has talked to me. So I start asking why the fuck I'm in Emergency. The nurse responds "It's standard practice when an ER doctor orders a test that you come back to ER for the results. This is because some patients don't have a family Doctor and we don't want anyone to slip through the cracks."

So I explain that I do have a family Doctor and I feel it's a giant waste of time and resources for me to be taking up an ER bed waiting for test results. The nurse doesn't agree.

Finally, I signed out against medical advice. Only then does the nurse tell me if there's a problem they'll call me, since I won't be at the hospital anymore.

And people wonder why our system is so heavily burdened in Canada. Ridiculous bullshit like this.

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