Posted on 02/14/2013 4:42:57 PM PST by ropin71
You got a glimpse of the transformed America Obama has been crowing about.
This much I can tell you: that was my dad (but he's retired, now).
Get used to it.
I grew up in a place where this was the norm; I experienced it when I broke my arm and my dad had to take me on multiple bus rides until the ‘right’ place could mend it.
Problem was that we didn’t have a ‘poor card’ you see.
As another post said, let us all get used to it.
You have a script. Go to an emergency room. With a script they can’t turn her away.
did your dad tell you to rub some dirt in it, or to walk it off?
Don’t go to urgent care for anything serious, just don’t.
I’ve only gone a few times and every time they misdiagnosed and mis-treated.
He drove me to his hospital, where one of his ortho buddies set my cast in the doctor’s lounge.
In the era of Baraq, it’s going to be very important to secure/maintain personal relationships with competent doctors. This is your best hope for any reasonable level of medical care.
Situations like you describe will become the “new normal” but there will be, at least for a few more years, workarounds.
Let me guess— You’re white, have health insurance and are legal citizens? Three strikes you’re out!
Doc-in-a-box just plain sucks.
Because they didn’t want the nuns to see . . . they would’ve wanted money.
That “nurse” using her thumb to check the pulse should have been the cue to get out of there. The clinic sounds like a place set up to bill medicare exclusively ... to the hilt.
I live in an area with a large population where there is a medical system with multiple hospitals and an urgent care center. The level of competence is different in each one. I would suggest that you try the emergency room next time. It may cost more money, but the level of care will be better. Always go to a main hospital or one that is a major trauma center if you can. You don’t need to have major trauma to go there, but the care is likely to be better.
It sounds like you might have had a close encounter with some of SEIU’s finest.
Her insurance may have a co-pay that equated to $100. The rest of the story: Gross Incompetence. Not typical, either.
I ALWAYS take charge of my medical care. I never sit there like a bump on a log waiting for a script to be written.
wow
How scary! Maybe you live in the wrong state? Lots of good care here in MN. I hope your wife gets an x-ray and competent care!
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