Bad service in the ER?

traumawolfe posts a list of Rules of the ER in

customers_suck. Complaints start at the first comment, where it is pointed out that s/he ripped off the list from another site. People also point out, at various points and in various ways, that some of the demands/complaints are irrational. Many personal anecdotes are invoked on both sides and I learn more about hemorrhoids than I wanted to.

Others defend the OP and there is discussion of exactly how bitchy a patient is allowed to be.

Eventually, the OP deletes her journal, but the post remains.

stella4809 makes an off-topic post over here and people complain there as well.

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digigirl132
2007-02-19 04:11 am UTC (link)

ugh, the ER. I really hate how they run things. The few times I've been in the ER were never fun. They kept me there in a bed for hours after a car accident when I only had some bruising from my seatbelt. Another time they kept me in the waiting room for two hours while I slowly swelled up like a balloon, and only helped me after it got to the point where my fingers were too puffy to bend.

I also have a beef with doctors in general. It took them almost a year to figure out that I had Polysystic Ovarian Syndrome, and during that year I "had" everything from pregnancy to cancer. It was such a stressful time that I actually got some grey hairs from it, and I was fifteen at the time. Definitely not fun, especially all the glares I got from old ladies at the OBGYN and all the lies I had to tell my friends about why I was missing so much school.

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