A family friend of mine has suffered a horrendous tragedy in the loss of her husband last week. As if losing a loved one was not enough, the manner of his death was one that pissed me off in a way I cannot express in words.
He was having chest pains one evening, so his wife drove him to the emergency room. When they got there of course it was busy and they were told to wait. After a couple of hours the chest pains got more severe, and he started having trouble breathing.
So his wife went to the window and alerted the nurse that her husband was in cardiac arrest and that they needed to see a doctor ASAP. The nurse got rude with her and told her that they didn't have anywhere to put her husband and she needed to sit back down. Te nurse actually told this woman "he's not dying."
At this point the wife lost it. She started screaming for help and the nurse threatened to have her removed. Knowing she was not going to get anywhere she rushed back over to her husband where she repeatedly cried out begging for help in the emergency room waiting area.
Her husband died in her arms there on the floor.
WHAT THE HELL!?!?!
I have been to this emergency room. Katie fell and busted her head open. I had to hold a bloody towel to the back of my child's head and try to keep her awake (it was late at night so that was not easy) in a freezing cold waiting room for over 5 hours. By the time we were seen the doctor told me there was no point in stitching it up because she had sat there so long the body had already started to heal itself. They put some butterfly bandages on it and she has a scar on the back of her head to this day. I received the same "wonderful" level of customer service on my visit.
So it has been established that this is not the place to go if you want to get seen in this century, no matter the severity of your injury. But I never imagined they would actually just let someone DIE.
Everyone says what a great lawsuit she has on her hands, but I can promise you she would trade the lawsuit for her husband any day. He was a wonderfully generous and jovial man. The world was a better place for having had him in it.
So if you are ever in Columbus Ga and you are in need of medical assistance, stay away from the Columbus Medical Center. They let you die there.
Ironically, I was born in that hospital and have had several surgeries which made the continuation of my life possible there.
I'll go to Alabama for medical treatment in the future. Isn't that a comforting thought??
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OMG, I am horrified to read this and so sorry for your friend. This is not the first time that I've read about something like this. First matter of priority in any emergency room is tending to a man feeling Chest Pain!
How awful. Simply, simply awful.
That's terrible. What's happening to the medical and health care system in our country? I've never been in that situation, but I fear that some day that sort of thing will happen to me or a loved one. Why are we reduced to a number? Thanks for sharing this. It's a scary thought, but this is an issue that has to be addressed.
So sorry for your friend's husband. Medical care is wonderful some places - like Boston. But, in other places it's clearly lacking. A friend of mine (my best friends husband) has been batting a brain tumor for several years. He has received the best, most intensive care one could possibly expect. Unfortunately, his battle is nearly over (at only 39) and has only a short time left. But, in all the pain and sadness, at least his family knows that everything possible has been done for him. He is simply incurable. Your friends' husband received no care - and he was most likely savable. Hard to figure these types of iniquities in the world.
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