lol!
The government health rationing system will fix this.
You’ll be able to unlock the doors from the inside (for a small fee).
What a drama queen: They left me in a building, so they owe me MILLIONS and MILLIONS of dollars.
KA-CHING!!!!
Wow - more lousy things that can happen to you while you are cheerfully sedated...
>>Mercado, a mother of two small children, says she was locked in the Oral Surgery Center for about 40 minutes and even saw her dental file left on the desk. She says the recovery room was a walk-in space with no door, so she can’t understand how the staff didn’t see her. <<
Who was watching her kids and why didn’t that person know that she didn’t come home?
This is really sad but sometimes the dumbest things happen. When I had a hysterectomy last year, they left me in the recovery room for 6 hours while they searched for an open room. It surely wasn’t as bad as this lady but it wasn’t fun either.
Y’know... it sounds like a nightmare all right. But c’mon, 40 minutes?!
I am thinking that a couple of people’s W2 forms will have a stop date exactly one day after this happened...
Doncha just hate it when that happens?
“’Terrified, I was hyper ventilating,’ Mercado said. ‘I threw up a couple of times from over exhaustion of crying.’”
“I think five million dollars might begin to ease the pain and suffering I have endured.”
I watch too much SciFi.
When I read this is,I wondered what my my reaction might be to the same situation.
I believe I’d turn around and see if my body was laying on the table behind me, make sure I was alive, then wonder if I woke up in an alternate reality. (lol!)
Barring the above circumstance, I’m sure I would not fear being locked in a clinic for 40 minutes. I would be mad, yes.
After I had my wisdom teeth pulled, I woke up in a different room and I was crying because I was so sad.
I could hear my friend, who was there to take me home, asking the nurse why I was crying. The nurse said, “Oh, they do that. She’ll be okay.”.
Why didn’t this lady have a friend waiting for her?
When socialized medicine comes around, you be thrilled to even see a medical person and pray they don't kill you or mix up your charts with someone else. It will be a cold assembly line.
You really shouldn’t go to any medical procedure where you will be administered anesthesia alone. You should always bring someone with you in case you are groggy when you come to and need someone to drive you home. Sometimes anesthesia makes you sick as well. And in some cases, God forbid, something could go wrong. I wouldn’t want to be by myself if I was going to go under.
Yeah....sure you will! [/s]
Every dentist I have went to makes you have someone else there with you to drive you home after oral surgery. For not having that alone, they deserve this. They allowed her to have the procedure with nobody to get her home after and forget her?
If she woke up with all her organs somebody missed a terrific business opportunity...
I had almost the exact same thing happen to me back in my college years. Well..... almost exactly. ;)
It was more of a bar than a dentist office and and the anesthesia of choice was whiskey.
But other than that, it was exactly the same ordeal.
I woke up in pitch blackness, stumbled around till I felt a door (out of the bathroom) and found myself locked inside the large college bar I had been celebrating in. First thought was to call the police as quickly as possible before they spotted me first and assumed I was robbing the place.
Thought I would be in trouble, but they called the owner and he came down and was all smiles when he let me out even though it was 4:00 am.
Guess now I know why. Apparently I could have sued him for trauma!
Damn. Too bad the law won’t allow me to sue for something that happened 26 years ago.
;)
When I have had this procedure I have always had to have someone with me that could drive. The office worker knew exactly who the person was.
The dentist is going to have an ache in his pocketbook.