Among Many Good Medical Workers, A Few Abusers Lurk

To create zing it has to be truthful.

We saw that we were getting nowhere with Brattleboro's ER, but our car had broken down, and the ambulances had adamantly refused to take me to Keene. But a good friend knew of our suffering and drove us to the Cheshire ER. There eveybody was polite, and the doctor spent a lot of time with me. He gave me some anti-spasm medicine and told me to see a neurologist soon. The medication helped me feel better, and I thought I was going to be fine until I got to the neurologist. Unfortunately, one of the medications he prescribed went into reverse effect in my body, and I was sicker and in more pain than ever. Soon I ended up back at--Guess where? BMH ER!

With your stupidity you deserve your suffering....

Mike Mulligan wrote:

With your stupidity you deserve your suffering....

Mike, this comment is just rude and nasty, and is only worthy of Alex!

Yea I know, but it is truthful...

I think that comment is totally fictional...

Why?

In my next visit to our Brattleboro ER, a middle-aged RN demoralized me and invalidated my pleas for help by distorting my words to her higher-up so that I looked stupid and crazy and I was again sent home without tests or help.

Idiot, get your story straight, in the EM you get to see doctor.

Mike Mulligan wrote:

Idiot, get your story straight, in the EM you get to see doctor.

It is common to end up seeing a PA or an NP in the ER instead of a real doctor.

OK, what country?

There is always a doctor in the EM...

Tony the pizza man wrote:

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Mike, this comment is just rude and nasty, and is only worthy of Alex!

F*** Wew douche, I'm only 'nasty' to ewe G-damned nukies who deserve it
Hope ya choke on ewe're greasy pizza-woptard

Mike Mulligan wrote:

OK, what country?
There is always a doctor in the EM...

I'm not exactly talking about the jungles of a third world nation here. Right here in civilized little Vermont, you can get stuck with a PA or an NP in an emergency. And they often want to get rid of you, to lighten their work load.

They are always under the direct supervision of a doctor...

How in the hell in their right mind, who would want to lighten their work load making that kind of money they do in a ER. Its a gold mine in there. It is like being in a casino and winning all the time, who would leave winning those big buck?

Give um another MRI and they will leave?

In my last "shove-off" visit to the ER, a Nurse Practitioner spitefully pushed down on my spasming arm and leg and squeezed the the arm that was causing me terrible pain, notwithstanding my pleas for mercy. Then she told me to go home and keep taking the medication that I had had an very bad reaction to, that had made me sicker!

That was the last time I was going to allow myself to get pushed out of the ER.

I have seen it .

I have experienced it. I believe you.

Some misguided people do not want to entertain that this mistreatment is happening .It proably makes them feel scared and uncomfortable that a situation could arise in which they themselves or their loved ones would be vulnerable.

It is happening , unless people speak up it will continue, and it could happen to anyone. It is happening everywhere .Not just one hospitable, or just one medical office, people have got to speak up.

The medical profession know who in their ranks are unprofessional ,uncaring , and incompetent , they close ranks and the patients and their families suffer .

It is getting worse. I applaude you , you should not be insulted , because you are trying to inform the public of you experiences.

Fake message!

I believe you wrote:

I have seen it .
I have experienced it. I believe you.
Some misguided people do not want to entertain that this mistreatment is happening .It proably makes them feel scared and uncomfortable that a situation could arise in which they themselves or their loved ones would be vulnerable.
It is happening , unless people speak up it will continue, and it could happen to anyone. It is happening everywhere .Not just one hospitable, or just one medical office, people have got to speak up.
The medical profession know who in their ranks are unprofessional ,uncaring , and incompetent , they close ranks and the patients and their families suffer .
It is getting worse. I applaude you , you should not be insulted , because you are trying to inform the public of you experiences.

Thank you so much for speaking up! There are even more details that I can't remember all that clearly yet. I was too sick to catch the names of the abusive employees; plus, I noticed that they wore their ID tags in an evasive sort of way, or not having their last names on their tags. When I am better, I intend to go through my chart with a microscope! Knowing them, they will probably tell me I'm not allowed to see my records, but I know about the FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT.

more Faker!

Why are you so incensed about another person's experience?

How dare you call them a faker ?
You are victimizing the victim again, that is what the abusers expect ..... Who will believe these people ? At A HOSPITAL ! I believe her.

Most patients are afraid to speak out , particularly in a small town .

Go on another thread and outspeak the nuketards , leave this lady alone.

You apparently have had wonderful, caring hopspital experiences, good for you. Other people have not been so fortunate ,some people have been traumatized, to be ill, vulnerable and to be marginalized as though you are in the way of their next cup of coffe is below contempt.

Sorry , these perpertrators DESERVE to be outted. If they abuse one patient , you can believe they will abuse another ,you or your loved ones may be next.

It will not matter what status in life you come from they are equal opportunity abusers .

If speaking out prevents one other sick person from being abused then good for her .

Go stand on a bridge.You (not her )