ehenry
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I'll try to make this as short as I can, yall might find it amusing:<br /><br />My boy plays high school football, he's in his junior year. He play's the line as guard and defensive tackle. During his game Friday night he got his shoulder wrenched out of place. The Doctor on the field managed to get it back in place but recommended we take him to get xrayed to be safe and make sure there were no fractures in the upper part of his arm. He went so far to call the hospital to make all arraingments so they would be ready for us. We make the 45 minute trip and get checked into the E/R....no problem. <br /><br />While I'm walking with my boy back to the examining room theres a couple laying out in the hall on gurnies all beat up. The woman is in a neck brace on a gurney screaming obsenities at her husband thats all beat up and bloody on another gurney. She gets up off her gurney, goes over and starte beating the snot outta her husband. A little further down the hall a guy comes running by screaming, with 12 cops chasing after him. Once in our examining room we hear the person in the room next door go flat line. <br /><br />We're in the room about 30 minutes and an orthopedic surgeon comes in and tells us whats going to happen. Doesn't lay the first hand on my boy at all and walks out. Tirty minutes after that a nurse comes in, puts a drip in his arm and gives him an injection through the drip. Another 30 minutes later they take 7 xrays and the radiologist and the sports medicine doctor that was on the field with my boy are looking at the xrays. They say that shoulder is in place, no tendon or ligament damage and for us to go back to exam room and they will discharge us.<br /><br />Back in exam room another doctor that we hadn't seen comes in and starts saying we'll be kept over night for some type proceedure. I ask if he's looked at the xrays and he tells me no. I tell him to go confer with the other two doc's that had just told us we would be discharged. While this chap was gone ANOTHER doctor comes in starts groping on my boy, pulling and twisting on his arm and says he doesn't believe that his shoulder is out of place but needs to be xrayed to be sure. I tell him that theres been 7 xrays taken and that we were waiting on the release forms so we could leave. This doctor leaves and another NEW doctor comes in and does the same as this last guy and then whips out a perscription pad, writes a scrip for 500mg Loratab for him and tells us that he feels his shoulder isnt out of place and walks out!!!!!!<br /><br />Thats 6 different physicians thats looked at my boy and only two were on the same page. About 20 minutes after this last chap left the sports medicine doctor comes in with a release form and tells us we can go. I ask him if its ok for us to leave with a drip in my boys arm. He says "OH, I'll have a nurse come take that out." 45 minutes later the drip is out and we're leaving.<br /><br />I asked the nurse if its always that way there and she says "Thats a quiet and slow night." <br /><br />Lord help someone that goes in there when they're busy!!<br /><br />Just my litte rant on hospital E/R's. Makes ya wonder don't it!!!!
<br /><br />...Bob in Calif...
