Terry Lyn Odoms.
PRE-COVID.
The neglect cannot be blamed on overworked staff due to the CCP virus.
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How did he get to the hospital if he was that sick?
Did he drive himself?
If any other family members knew that this 72 y/o man was sick enough to go to the E-Room, it is incumbent on the family to have sent somebody with him, or at very least, notify the Desk Nurse of this elderly patient now waiting.
Usually when you say the words HEART TROUBLE, you get immediate attention. I know. It worked for me some years ago. I almost felt embarrassed by all the attention.
RIP, brother. I have to wonder where were your family members that night.
So it’s even worse.
Except maybe they were overworked with ALL the normal issues, rather than the ghost-towns that hospitals became because of the dreaded COVID (basically anyone not COVID - 2nd-class patient).
Today it doesn't even remotely resemble the ER in which I worked. Patient numbers were at least four times greater than back then.
The hospital this Marine went to sounds like a regional,rather than major,hospital...my hunch is that people today see the ER as a 24 hour a day walk in clinic...far more so than when I worked there.
The ER in a Hospital is no place for a sick person.
Terry Lynn Odoms.
He was one of my thousands of customers, back in the early 2000s, at my 20ac nursery/garden center/landscape contracting business, 20mi south of York.
Terry and I shot at my GC&N’s shooting range, which I built, with my special firearms. He was a good customer and friend.
RIP, Terry...
When you leave an elderly woman in the same tee shirt she was admitted in for three days, feed her only once a day or respond to her ringing the buzzer because you are scared she might have the Wuflu (she had pneumonia) you do not belong in the medical system.
Because only family was allowed in and her daughter was out of town working they engaged in outright neglect.
Your Medical Heroes Everybody!
I just retired after over 46 years in medicine, most of it in ER work. I loved working in ER’s in my early career but in the past 10 years or the majority of patients are homeless bums, drug addicts, and welfare types ( I know, I’m repeating myself). For them the ER is a 24 hour walk-in clinic, a good place to demand a sandwich at 2:00 AM, and ambulances are fancy taxi cabs. I’m done and I don’t miss it.
SEMPER FI BROTHER.
In another 20 years or less, they will have gotten rid of all of us OLD CORPS, Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard WARRIORS that THEY HAVE HATED since the POLITICIANS lost the war we fought for them!
“when I die and go to heaven, to saint Peter I will tell; ONE MORE MARINE REPORTING SIR, I SERVED MY TIME IN HELL”
And as far as I’m concerned, that includes this whole Goddamned f#cked up system!
The more government gets its grimy hands on the health care system, the worse this will get. Stories like this are common in the UK. We basically have socialized medicine here, since government is the biggest player in health care and insurance. That is why so many doctors are quitting, why rural areas are losing their hospitals, and why we often wait months to see a specialist.
I hope his family ends up owning that hospital.
Unfortunately I’ve been in an ambulance 3 times, taken to ER. Never once did they plop me in a wheelchair. Always rolled into a ER bed.
“ While we cannot provide additional comment given this is a pending legal matter, our focus remains on providing safe, timely and high-quality care to every patient, every time.”
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I detest these vapid PR flack statements from companies.