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When you go to the emergency room act like a respectful human being. Let me tell you what is inappropiate. It is inappropriate to call your doctor " Doogie Howser" because you are old and threatened by a young face. It is inappropriate to say "your not a doctor" to the person with a white coat on and a stethoscope. It is inappropriate to say "hold on" after your hip hop ringtone just went off and you talk to your boo. Its not only inappropiate, its just plain rude. Have some manners, treat your physician with some respect. Do what your mother taught you , show some respect.

Glenn Becks Hospital Horror---Give me a break!!!!

Glenn Beck a T.V. celebrity went to a hospital emergency room and says it was a "horror." He whined and whined and whined on ABC news "oh the triage nurse did not look at me." He was very cavalier in stating no one cared about him and that he was drugged up by doctors. Well i got news for you Mr Beck, welcome to the real world. Didn't you read my blog---You will wait!!!. The system is broken, overwelmed and destined to get worse as government funding cuts occur, on call specialists refuse to take call and all we speak of is patient satisfaction and not doctor satisfaction. I got news for you Mr. Beck, yeah your hemmrhoids were probably bad, butt---no pun intended, I'm sure at the same time you rolled in, there were patients with heart attacks, strokes and gastrointestinal bleeds. There are a lot of sick people in the ER including drug seekers asking for that dilaudid, morphine and fentanyl every minute, and when they dont get it, complain to the hospital administrator about bad care and threaten to sue. The USA needs to realize that emergency medicine is as important, if not more important than Cardiology or Oncology. Emergency Medicine needs the "care" Mr Beck speaks of from the conservative politicians he supports, ensuring adequate reimbursement to ED docs and protects them from frivilous lawsuits, so they dont feel like their practicing with a gun to their head. Forgive me if I'm not that sympathetic to you Mr. Beck. Your experience wasn't that bad, you actually were seen within 20 minutes. Welcome to the ER.

The Waiting Room---Lights,Sounds, Sirens and more!!!

The waiting room. You were not sick enough to go straight to a bed. So now your banished to the waiting room and you will wait. If your in a fancy smancy community hospital, this may mean cookies, coffee, a security guard and plasma tv's. If your in the inner city, it may be piss, stool, vomit, blood and a smell only recognizeable by alien beings fascinated with an unclean truck stop. All are equal in the waiting room, there is no rich, no poor, no pretty, no ugly, no nothing, forgive my grammar, but its true. There is only frustation. Ninety percent of people are caught up in their own illness. They are only worried about their headache, their cough, their sore throat or their hurting wrists. This is what lays at the essence of their frustration. No one can imagine that the doctors inside are not eating donuts and coffee and watching that nights ballgame. They cannot imagine that a 50 year old father of 4 just had their heart stop and the young physician has beads of sweat dripping from their brow as try to place a line to provide livesaving medication. It never enters your mind that a 30 year old 500lb w woman who cant move their left side is having a stroke receiving emergent attention. Waiting in the room is painful, but be mindful important work is being done. Take a deep breath your illness is important, but another may be worse off than you.

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