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.
“How did he get to the hospital if he was that sick?”
An ambulance dropped him off.
Yes, you absolutely have to have someone with the patient at all times.
Went through it with my Dad.
Thanks to Covid, many hospitals are not allowing family members to be with their loved ones in ER, surgery and special procedure areas and often in recovery areas.
Our grand kids’ other grandmother died by herself in a NJ Nursing Home in the first few weeks of March a year ago. Our DIL couldn’t view or pick up the body of her mother until later that summer.
A week later one of my best friends died in an upscale nursing home with zero visitors allowed. Clovid had barely shown up yet, but we and his family could not say goodbye. His funeral service was just held this past Saturday. His service was held outside to enable a large crowd to be there.
My wife about 5 weeks ago had special cortisone shots in her lower back. I was not allowed into the procedure room, and they brought her out to the traffic circle after the procedure. Before Covid, I was with her the before, during and after the same procedure. Then, I helped the RN’s with their post op care.
I had a toe amputated last August, and my wife was allowed to bring me up to the procedure area in a wheel chair. Then she went back to the entry area to wait for me to be wheeled down post amputation. Then, she wheeled me to the courtesy car drop off and the valets and she loaded me into our car.
A friend, who is a Covid Survivor at age of 81, needed a pace maker installed after he survived. His two daughters are RNs and work at that hospital. They saw him when he was loaded into an ambulance to be brought to his home in a daughter’s back yard, post pacemaker installation.
Due to the Delta Variant many California hospitals are keeping relatives/friends out of the hospitals where their family members are like they did last year.