[Vicki]

I have a heart condition which I take medication for and a couple years ago I had chest pain that continued for several days. I was experiencing unusual family stress and I called my cardiologist and he asked me to go the emergency room. Although I felt it probably was not necessary, I followed my doctors advice.

I was treated terribly once I was taken back to see a doctor. He made me feel so bad, that I almost left in the middle of his evaluation and treatment. I told him I had been a lot of stress and that I felt that my chest pain was probably nothing. I had never been to an emergency room before. However, he implied that I was a overacting and probably a hypochrondiac. I told him that the only reason I was there was because my heart doctor told me to come there. He gave me a slight sedative and sent me home. The bottom line is that now I feel that no matter what happens I will not go to an emergency room because of that doctor.

[FairOpinion]

"I was treated terribly once I was taken back to see a doctor. "

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I have heard that from a lot of people. Some doctors and articles tell people to NOT ignore symptoms, which could potentially be serious and to go to the ER, but the doctors there VERY often treat the patients as if they were idiots and just showed up there, because they were bored and wanted attention.

But that shouldn't dissuade you from going to the ER, if you think you need to. If you have a choice, you might try a different hospital, and if you can, have a healthy person go with you, who can be your advocate and fight for you, and demand that the doctors perform the test to confirm or rule out some serious possibilities.