Posted on 07/29/2021 7:02:51 AM PDT by Red Badger
My family had a scare today. Not the first one, but the scariest. My elderly parents live with me for this exact reason: so I can get them help in an emergency if/when they need it.
I awoke to my mother lying on the couch, white as a ghost and holding her chest. I asked what was wrong and she told me she was having chest pains. After checking her blood pressure, I rushed her to our local ER. What transpired next left me dumbfounded and wondering if there is any way to fix what we witnessed.
The first issue I had arose when we walked in at 9 a.m. to a packed ER. (Mind you, we live in a relatively small area.) The medical staff was stretched to the limit, but they each were holding up well and were quite pleasant. The problem was that probably half of the thirty or so people in the waiting area were clearly non-emergent. They could have or should have either gone to their doctor or to urgent care rather than wasting the resources of the ER.
I guess I do not understand why anyone in their right mind would subject themselves to a lengthy wait and the high cost of an emergency room visit when a doctor’s office or urgent care visit would be quicker and less expensive? Oh, wait, I know why: this WAS their doctor’s office…and I was footing their bill.
The second issue relates to the pandemic and to vaccines. Yes, I am now 100% anti-vax. I am not ashamed of that and I do not care who knows or who labels me crazy. Up until last year, I wasn’t anti-vax at all. I had all my vaccines and my children had all of theirs. But that’s back when vaccines were actually vaccines and not experimental gene therapy. And when we practiced evidence-based medicine.
After watching what has happened this past year and doing my own research, if I had it to all over again my family would not have EVER received a single vaccine. Part of my research was reading this book, which I highly recommend: Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History. It was both enlightening and terrifying.
After what I witnessed in the ER today, I am absolutely never allowing another vaccine into my body or into my family’s bodies! In the short time we were in a treatment room, we witnessed three separate patients with COVID-19 vaccine complications.
One man was in his 50’s and had what they thought was pneumonia and blood clots. Turns out it was not pneumonia, but a respiratory complication from the vaccine along with the blood clots. They were going to admit him to the hospital until they realized it was worse than they could handle and were preparing to transport him to a trauma hospital.
Another woman could barely stand or walk and was violently shaking from—you guessed it—the vaccine. The third event was a pair of people who were having severe side effects from the shot and were concerned enough that one of them needed the emergency department.
It doesn’t end there. There appeared to be a high-level executive roaming the halls who was frantically micromanaging the medical staff. Clearly, my observation of this man could be way off-base, but as a migraine sufferer and frequent emergency room patient, I have NEVER seen an executive in the ER, so there’s that.
These are the things I became acutely aware of today: America has a medical services abuse problem. Our hospitals are overrun with needless cases. Why have people been conditioned to go to the ER instead of to their primary care doctor? Because they aren’t here legally and hospitals are mandated by law to treat in the ER regardless of ability to pay. Which is great, for emergent cases, but not for routine care.
Also, we are not being told the truth about ANYTHING involving this so-called pandemic. Government health agency after network newsreader after Big Pharma-beholden token doctor has obfuscated, obstructed, and opposed every factual story about the SARS-CoV-2 virus and its treatment.
Until we dismantle Big Pharma, rein-in unaccountable people like Fauci and Gates, and break the habit of eating processed and genetically-modified food, we will continue to depend on Western medicine. My goal is to reform it, not destroy it.
I am but one voice, but if as many of you as possible share these stories, there is no way they can ignore us all.
Please feel free to send us your observations and experiences so we can flood the internet with the truth! Email us at realmagainstitute@gmail.com.
And the doctors were making that diagnosis in front of everyone there?
That would get the staff unlicensed and fired. Period.
Patients might be saying that…but guess what? Patients are morons.
LOL!......... Her name’s Kristina! But close enough!............
This doesn’t pass the basic smell test of any ER I ever worked around
Not sure what ERs you’ve been to, but if you go to Grady Hospital in Atlanta, you’ll see exactly what this guy is talking about. You walk into an ER, you cannot be turned away. If the hospital, like Grady, is a Level 1 trauma center they get all the bad stuff: shootings, stabbings, car wrecks, etc, plus everything else. Some hospitals, like Grady have established units to try and deal with mild issues, but at the end of the day it’s all about liability. Someone comes in for something, they get two aspirin and shuffled out the door, collapse at the corner, an army of lawyers shows up to represent the family. Basic facts and we all see the billboards driving down the road.
If they’re talking to someone that is having chest pains, they can’t turn them away. Because it just might be a heart attack or them looking for a free meal, some juice and to get out of the cold. What happens if the person with chest pains, is asked to leave and collapses outside. Family and their lawyers find out that their heart exploded and the hospital could have done something about it.
When the meth heads and pill heads show up, looking for some Vicodin to relieve their back pain, they get a bed space. Some hospitals will just write the scrip and watch them do cartwheels as they leave, just so they can free up the bed for something legitimate.
I’ve had to follow ambulances to Grady often. It was not uncommon to be there more than once in a shift. And it was not surprising to see the same person, in the same bed, in the same parking spot in the hallway throughout my shift.
So, yes, when the poor need help or the pill head wants meds, they go to the ER. When Juanita is pregnant and her water breaks, she goes to the ER.
And we’re paying for all of it.
Some of the folks on this site sure do ride some really high horses.
The other issue is that urgent care sends many cases to the ER that they could treat themselves.
Hi.
“The problem was that probably half of the thirty or so people in the waiting area were clearly non-emergent.”
I’m not an MD, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn one time.
Having said that, and having been in the ER, Medevac, etc. too many times, I couldn’t determine how triage was going. Who’s on first...or second (insert Abott Costello skit).
I’ve seen a person walk into ER, stay there for 20 mins. without any apparent symptoms and expire right before my eyes.
Who knows?
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“America has a medical services abuse problem.”
Wait’ll all ERs are overrun with Biden’s Spanish-speaking illegal freedom-seekers.
they think they have to be treated regardless of ability to pay there.
They WILL be treated regardless of ability to pay there. Federal law that they can’t be turned away.
An old article... https://www.salon.com/2012/07/05/reagans_healthcare_mandate/
As the Romney campaign debates itself about whether the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate is an evil tax or an unconstitutional penalty, it’s worth remembering that Republican presidential icon Ronald Reagan imposed his own national healthcare mandate on the country. The mandate is well know today — it requires emergency rooms to treat anyone in need, regardless of their ability to pay — but the fact that Reagan signed it into law is often forgotten.
Interestingly, none other than Michelle Obama was part of the group in Chicago that did everything to keep these indigent folks out of their ERs by forcing them to other clinics. And from what I remember, it wasn’t pretty. But, of course that side of the story was never told about that power couple(/sarc).
Oh, unfortunately, I have all the scars to prove my point.
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Isn't this an abuse of the emergency room?
Well, they are overrun by “those” people.
Just stop in any E.R. in Southern California and your eyes won’t be lying to you.
So, at least that part of her story passes the smell test.
Bonus points if you have the temerity to ask the Admitting Nurse who is paying for all the services given to the “undocumented” patrons in the E.R.
I have. And after a lot of hemming, hawing, weaving and bobbing, the Nurse finally admitted it was the State that picked up the tab, you know, you and I, the Taxpayers.
That sums up my experiences with 3 hospital ERs, having been brought there by both Ambulances and cars, for 3 strokes ,twice for internal bleeding and once for an undiagnosed collapse.(Probably dehydration, or low blood pressure caused by permanently reducing my stroke blood pressure (over 220).
Right now a lot of ERs will only allow a patient in there and no relatives or caretakers. -Tom
I will not argue the poster is real or a fake. No matter to me.
But it is correct that emergency rooms have become free medical care to people who should not be there.
I have A-Fib and until we got the perfect formula for medication made frequent trips to the ER. Only once was I scared enough to call 911 as I feel that like the ER, ambulances should be available to those in real need rather than used as a taxi.
So I have spent a fair amount of time waiting to be seen in the ER. One time it was 5 hours. On that day, the ER was full of mothers with kids with a scraped knee, head colds and various other things that children experience. Not one should have been in the ER
No, nobody told me anything about their medical history. When you watch parents interacting with their kids for 5 hours, you are stupid if you don;t get it.
But the bottom ine is...the federal government ruins every thing in which it becomes involved.
If you do not believe that, make a list. Start with the elementary schools and go down the list...grade school, universities, grant system to universities for research. the postal system, EPA, Bureau of Land Management, the FBI, DOJ, and no way to cure the ills of any of these organizations without a complete reversal of how we think of government’s role in our personal lives.
Think about it. Your vote helped shape the ER just as it helped scrw up the school system. Get serious.
“You” = all FR fans, not any specific person.
Those who’ve chosen to subject themselves to Dr. Fauci’s experimental injections will defend the decision no matter how many others are hurt by it. They’re trapped, like rats.
How many of these people in the ER are psychosomatic ?
Where my D-i-L works, they have a lot of people out with various illnesses, some severe....they all had the “vaccine” and it’s the holdouts running the place. Btw, it’s a school for disabled children with one teacher and several aides (3-4) in each room.
While I vehemently oppose the COVID jabs, this story sounds like “an Internet” story.
It’s on the Internet, it MUST be TRUE!
Not buying it.
Massive wait times.
I was told that most people below the age of 30 use the ER and UC’s as their primary doctor (we live in a rural area).
As a result, I either drive 50 miles to an urgent care in an affluent area, schedule an appointment with my regular doc, or do home remedy. My doc is pretty good, but I keep thinking she is going to hang it up soon since the insurance keeps going up and her income is not. Again, most people go to urgent care rather than spend money on regular visits.
Note I did not say ER. When my Dad had stroke, he sat in the ER for three hours before a doc saw him. This was in Seattle.
Our health system is bad. No point pretending otherwise.
Ours already is, late at night......................
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