The Time I Went to Tampa General Hospital

[@samryan6575]

i got a ring stuck on my finger and they almost amputated my finger and then they called the fire department and the fire department got my ring off Thanks Tampa General

[@justme4539]

Hey, that's pretty good, actually - usually divorces cost _an arm and a leg_

[@chummyweevil3948]

lmao

[@goofgoobernicus]

@@justme4539 hahahaha

[@ZacharyReaper]

"if you survive the wait, you aren't sick. That'll be $700 sir"

[@sweetnote.]

*thousand

[@lunchbox1553]

Lol I'd love to see a $700 hospital bill

[@FuzzMustard]

$700? an ambulance ride alone is $2000-$2500 lmao. Never left the ER with less than a 10k bill before

[@lunchbox1553]

@@FuzzMustard Yeah and that's just the flat charge for an ambulance ride, it doesn't matter how short the ride is, it's going to be a lot

[@mkt106]

@@FuzzMustard Holy fucking shit, that is so sad man I feel for you. I'm from England, it's free here.

[@tinystalker1821]

Sounds like Charlie was in... Cr1tikal condition

[@sauce9703]

Stop this.

[@tinystalker1821]

Make me.

[@tinystalker1821]

Don't stop me now, I'm having such a good time.

[@gornthelizardkingofplanete2031]

Ivory The Elephant I'm havin' a ball

[@thefrozenflames1658]

Badumn chang

[@roach_man_roach_man4024]

been to the same hospital, same experience. my dad fell off a step-ladder and onto a railing, breaking 4 of his ribs and puncturing his lung. we went in the emergency room expecting to be seen right away. this was many years ago so i was only a kid, crying because i thought my dad was dying. after hours of waiting with nothing, my mom went up to the waiting desk and slammed her hands down and demanded that dad would be seen NOW. few minutes later, look at that they're finally getting to the man who can barely breathe.

[@Lordecai]

God damn is he alright

[@roach_man_roach_man4024]

@@Lordecai yeah he's okay now! got a messed up back but that's not necessarily completely caused by the fall.

[@Lordecai]

@@roach_man_roach_man4024 thank god

[@yes-ti5lf]

Never been there but I do live in tampa

[@roach_man_roach_man4024]

@C Back for information skips a generation, got it from grandpa on me moms side

[@tonyfo88]

My great aunt had a stroke and she spent 12 hours in the ER waiting room. Like, if a stroke isn't a fairly serious medical emergency then I don't know what is.

[@greg77389]

It clearly wasn't that serious if she was fine waiting for 12 hours. They're probably looking for people with freakin tree branches impaled in their skulls to take on immediately. No joke, I saw a show where a motorcyclist limps in with a tree branch sticking out from his helmet and they took him in immediately.

[@midosabbagh]

@@greg77389 that's not how strokes work. They can be lethal at onset but even if they're not the longer you wait the worse they get and they can cause permanent nerv damage. No matter how you try to interpret it blocked or leaking blood on your brain is never not serious.

[@John-pn3mw]

greg77389 yeah okay greg head on over to the ER and tell me how many fucking tree branch impaling victims you see in a week span

[@AshlynOne]

@@greg77389 Turns out "I saw on the television" isn't really the best source. Stroke victims can be permanently paralyzed, permanently mentally disabled (I'm talking unable to care for yourself bad), or die. So yes, it's just as if not more serious than a fucking tree branch impaling you.

[@albinotangerine5556]

Tampa General? More like Weenie Hut General.

[@TheNaaproductions]

Albino Tangerine nice

[@MetallicBascinet]

"Uh no, I meant that place." "Super Weenie Hut General!"

[@C0nnie]

Should've got a FastPass

[@sauce9703]

Stop giving them ideas

[@ConejoTravesti]

$200 DLC

[@Angeloohoo]

C0nnie What is this, fucking Six Flags?

[@matthuh]

Would have got in quicker if he bought the season pass.

[@ayzoid9980]

Ezpass

[@donshyne]

Tampa General Hospital Review

[@Bobcat342512]

Moist Meter

[@sting7167]

This is my worst hospital experience of All Time

[@Aaron-fb6mb]

Attaway general

[@alfredomorales8488]

It has a little for everyone 8/10

[@SwordStopper29]

Should’ve gone to Attaway General

[@bananacheese6864]

Probably better service than this shit hole of a hospital

[@sunritroykarmakar4406]

dr henry

[@Piximae]

Yeah, I met a woman in the ER who was pregnant and had waited 8 hours with chest pain and nausea

[@FuryForged]

I never knew you lived here in Tampa. Cool. Next time you watch Les Mis, go to St. Joseph's.

[@maxlastra4682]

FuryForged isn’t it a women’s hospital only?

[@alekkoha7578]

FuryForged whaaaaaaaat this is the last place in the world I thought I’d see you 😂

[@yaznarerkinsaw1914]

Panda boy nice profile pic

[@NaschAzure]

@@maxlastra4682 no?

[@PillsforSleep]

@@maxlastra4682 St. Josephs is 2 buildings. One side is a general hospital, the other is specifically a woman's paternity building, for births and such. So you're half right. Source: was born there.

[@lento2830]

florida hospitals exist in some sort of dystopian future, it's extremely difficult for regular mortals to enter that plane of incompetence. but it is florida, so any fucking thing can happen. -suffering south floridian

[@apexvideos3646]

lento I like how Florida has highly venous snakes, fish that can bite off fingers, gators that can snap you in two but has some of the worst medical care

[@krishnabulsara2835]

I live a little north of Orlando and things there seem fine

[@RJT80]

lento Florida itself exists in some sort of dystopian future. It's a bizarre place. The mishmash of culture in Miami makes more sense than the rest of the state. I lived in Tampa for around 5 months and almost got t-boned weekly on my way to or from work. Like instant death plain as day moronic driving. Like Russia with palm trees and diesel pickup trucks.

[@dsmniner]

lento retweet from Uni of south Florida student :(

[@Lameashellcosplay]

I live in Florida and the doctors are so awful, I had chest pains after going ice skating and I thought I might have hurt myself so I went to a hospital and the one I went to said I was gonna have to stay overnight, get surgery, etc. at ANOTHER hospital 10 miles away, so we get there and they just tell me I have growing pains and I was fine, but this wasn't even true, every time I go ice skating it happens all the time, so they wasted so much time for a false diagnosis.

[@thefinalpie]

Don't worry. Here in Canada I was in the waiting room for nearly an hour while going through anaphylaxis, wheezing and swelling from a severe food allergy. When they did finally take me in and give me adrenaline shot I needed an hour ago I was then interrogated by the doctor on what recreational drugs I took to receive this reaction and refusing to accept the fact I had eaten shellfish for the first time in years and I assumed it could be that (It was). I was then put onto an undersized bed with my legs hanging off the edge while bleeding everywhere from 3 failed IV needle insertions. The steel ones too so they hurt like a motherfucker. left overnight as I heard a man die near me in the curtained off sections of the emergency room then got released at 5am. that's the story of the fastest time I went through Emergency.

[@mylifecringe4943]

Damn

[@dustinturner2202]

thefinalpie gotta love that free healthcare

[@elephystry]

Was this Alberta by any chance?

[@mann8557]

fReE hEaTH CAre wOrKs- libtards

[@slayerofdarknssdmt9697]

The decloration of independence

[@yaboiwedge4092]

video starts at 0:00

[@TomNJoshPlay]

YaBoi Wedge You da real MVP

[@Kyle-iu4rg]

Thanks

[@moment-zj5qt]

Couldn’t have known without you give him an oscar

[@admiralbharoo5689]

And ends at 5:47

[@mylifecringe4943]

I never knew that

[@TimesChu]

Fun little fact for your noodles: This isn't a phenomenon limited to Tampa. A lot of hospitals like this because of... well a lot of reasons, but it can be basically boiled down to hospitals reducing staff, increasing hours, and encouraging use of the emergency ward over clinics, because emergency ward makes more money. Essentially, when you visit the emergency ward, the hospital can charge your insurance company more than if you'd taken a normal clinic visit. To encourage this, hospitals increase paperwork on general doctors, who don't have a union, so they have to work unpaid overtime to fill the paperwork. This gives them less time to see patients, and makes it harder for you to get a timely appointment, so you visit the emergency room. When you get to the emergency room, you'll find the wait times interminable, because even if you're there for a real, right now emergency, there are dozens of people there trying to get seen for their arthritis or whatever. Now the Emergency ward is flooded with more patients than it's equipped to handle, with problems the doctors and staff aren't trained to deal with. They might seem similar, but a General Practitioner and a Emergency Medicine Practitioner are not the same thing. This forces the ER into a triage situation, where anyone that doesn't look like they're going to literally drop dead from blood loss gets put on the waiting list. If Crit had been having a real heart attack and had collapsed, he'd have been bumped up the list. But because he was standing and talking, he didn't get high priority. So remember this the next time you're waiting in the ER. And please, don't blame the practicing doctors. I guarantee they're just as upset about this as you are.

[@jacobmartin8332]

Times: Yes, I you are %100 correct in this statement. As terrible of a situation as it is, we cannot blame the doctors and nurse practitioners who are there only to help us, the only people we can blame are the administrators of the organization or company itself.

[@kakyoin9688]

Wizard I’m actually sure X-rays can give you cancer so not exactly the all go too

[@kakyoin9688]

Wizard isn’t a emergency clinic cheap?

[@kakyoin9688]

Wizard jesus welp guess I’ll just die

[@slayerofdarknssdmt9697]

The decloration of independence

[@fishbundy6606]

My mom used to work as a manager of a truck stop in Kamloops called "The Verse" in February of 2010 she slipped and fell in the kitchen giving her a broken pelvis and femur. She ended up having a stroke and chronic migraines. She was sent to the E.R. and my 9 year old self went to go visit her a day later when she was supposed to be in her hospital room. The nurses at the front desk told us she was at the end of the hallway on the left but she was currently sleeping with a bad migraine. So I walk down with my dad and I see to my horrid surprise that my mother, currently undergoing a migraine, was in the end of the hallway where there were open fucking windows at 12:00pm. My dad told me to wait there while he went to ask what the fuck they were thinking putting someone with a migraine in a bright as day fucking hallway where if she needed any assistance she would have to kick a bell with her good foot. The explanation was that the rooms were full of people even though there was people that could've easily been swapped out for like a day or so. 3 fucking days later my mom is moved out of her hallway space of torture and into her own room. The doctors explain how she needs all sorts of medical help but don't do anything for like a full month. 7 years later she is still waiting for the last fucking quarter of her treatments and will probably not be done with them for another 3 years. Even more recent, my grandfather was recently diagnosed with cancer. At first the doctors guess was lymphatic cancer but he no longer has his lymphatic system after a run-in with cancer in 2001. Then, after doing all sorts of tests they still don't know the type of cancer it is. My grandfather ends up getting a swollen leg so big he cant bend it or fit into any of his shoes. He goes to the hospital to get it checked. They look at it and said "it'll die down after a while, just let it sit" and sent him home. The leg only gets worse and my grandfather is in tons of pain and has to constantly take the pills the doctors prescribed him. He just recently got his leg fixed and is going into chemo in a week. I'd just thought I would share some of my worst experiences with Canadian hospitals. I have more if anyone is interested. But they aren't as extreme though.

[@furrycircuitry2378]

Alumousi tell us please

[@starfish2323]

Alumousi I'm really interested please tell me

[@apexvideos3646]

Alumousi if that was my grandpa I'd flip my shit and attack the staff out of anger. AND OUT OF SPITE I'd brake like one of their bones so they'll have to get medical attention and have to wait months

[@montinyek6554]

Is your mom okay now?

[@dotshell4160]

Oh, this is the type of shit that makes me REALLY angry.

[@raikou8784]

Please call an ambulance if it happens again, even if you think it isn't serious. If you leave heart pains alone it might actually escalate to a heart attack

[@meggiefbaby1397]

Potato The bill you get from the ambulance will give you a heart attack.

[@raikou8784]

MeggieF Baby if you tell them you can't afford it they actually waive most of it off

[@meggiefbaby1397]

Well honestly, if we had universal healthcare ERs wouldn't be backed up by people basically going in for cold and flu(which is basically pointless anyways), you know, shit you should see a primary doctor for, Charlie wouldn't have had to wait hours to get a diagnosis on his chest pains.

[@meggiefbaby1397]

Potato Oh, I'm well aware they mark up everything; that's why I tell them to fuck off trying to get me to pay $600 for a horse pill of ibuprofen when I can four at home for the same strength.

[@anonnada2107]

That's really expensive

[@AntonioLopez-lx8xb]

My mother's bf lost a finger at work and went to Tampa general and we didn't get to see him until 1am, 13 hours later

[@sneedscopeandseethe]

FatValKilmer did he get his finger back?

[@spelingmistake5231]

FatValKilmer did he find it

[@salmonbelmont7758]

FatValKilmer did they find his finger

[@ironladle1734]

FatValKilmer You don't know how wide your username made me smile.

[@potatopielord]

13 hours for him to go in, get a surgery and then get clearance to leave is a small amount of time, all things considered.

[@nickbil8070]

I cut myself bad when I was a teenager. When I went to the hospital in my area they made me wait for almost an hour and a half to be stitched they would of probably made me wait longer but I was bleeding though my towel onto the floor in front of everyone

[@lerne3060]

Fun.

[@primitivechef8009]

Who ever said cutting themselves wasnt fun

[@jorge69696]

"I'm gonna stop ranting" Please don't. This was great.

[@LuvTonique]

California's ERs aren't much better, Charlie. Lemmie tell ya how much I empathize. I tore about 2 feet of muscle open in my back one day, no clue how it just happened randomly, and was in such excruciating pain that I was left screaming in agony for about 25 minutes straight, and I was drove to the ER with that very pain getting worse with every bump the car went over. In tears, I hobbled into the ER and said "I don't know what happened, my back feels like it got ripped open, I need help, please help me" and I was falling to my knees at the front desk. They put me in a wheelchair and wheeled me into the waiting room, and then I sat there. About an hour passed, I was just crying profusely and staring at the floor the whole time. The doctor came in and asked me to describe the pain. I described it. He left the room. 7 hours later, I'm not exaggerating, 7 fucking hours of sitting there in horrific lifeshattering pain later, the doctor walks back in and takes my fucking blood pressure, then leaves again. 3 more hours later, the pain has only gotten worse, I've watched 3 Dreamworks movies (Shrek 2, Despicable Me and How to Train Your Dragon) in the waiting room during these 11 hours. Finally, the doctor walks in, hands me a bottle with 2 Vicodin in it, and says to go home and lie down. I find out the next day my medical insurance was charged 6.8 thousand dollars for that visit. California Health Care.

[@celialehman1074]

That's shit, man. Did they even diagnose what was wrong?

[@juancordova357]

Remind me to not die in california

[@montywoodside]

Sorry to hear about that man, but Despicable Me ain't Dreamworks :P

[@alekkoha7578]

Lil Miss Jay that’s the United States for you. “1st world country”

[@mann8557]

Lil Miss Jay our state is a joke.

[@JDizzle420]

Tampa General Hospital has a fucking McDonald's inside of it. (I've known this from personal experience) what the fuck?

[@nonamegoodguy797]

Azech free health care everyone.

[@rihardsrozans6920]

Azech What do you mean "What the fuck" ? This is America!

[@eloqit9695]

dude, trust me, anything from mcdonalds is better than the shit they serve at the food court there. im p sure they just built the mcdonalds bc so many people complained abt the shit food

[@SubsidingBird2]

Azech they have one in Bumrungrad hospital in bangkok. It's actually a really great hospital.

[@reesepuff6351]

eloqit they at least should get a subway

[@loafgod]

Thank god you didn't have something serious, Tampa General hospital really sucks ass ://

[@walugi55]

beats the only other hospital option in the area.

[@garchompchump9274]

i had a good experience when i dislocated my knee cap.

[@jks211]

Apparently it's the worst rated hospital in the country

[@Jason-id8bl]

Tampa General saved my life when lakeland regional refused to operate on me when I had appendicitis

[@JamesFores007]

Kayla R. Its like that in Texas as well. I had a testicular torsion and went to the ER at 8pm and wasnt seen by a actual doctor to untwist the thing until 4am by which time my left nut had swollen to the size of a softball.

[@ethandickie]

When I was a baby at 3 months old my mom took me to Tampa hospital with two ear infections in both ears. My mom said it took them around 3 hours to get me treated and (like you said) there was 0 communication. My mom loves to use this story and always tells people now, "even if im dying my last words are going to be take me to heart of Florida instead".

[@19nmiller1]

Fun story, I had flesh-eating bacteria about a year and a half ago so I first went to my primary care physician who then called the hospital emergency room beforehand to let them know I was coming. Even though I was sobbing, couldn't walk, and had a reference first, it still took them an hour to even see me for vitals and whatnot. They took a kid with a sprained ankle before me. Then it took over two hours to be seen by an actual doctor. If the wait wasn't so fucking long i would've been able to save the muscle I loss due to tissue necrosis, but now I'm permanently disabled.

[@Sleepin-N-Snoozn]

If that's the case you should've yelled out you have flesh eating bacteria on your leg. I'm sure someone would notice then.

[@19nmiller1]

Sleepin-N-Snoozn didn't know at the time what it was, just knew that something was very wrong...turns out we were right about that

[@Sleepin-N-Snoozn]

Nicole Miller Sorry to hear that. Fortunately I'm well aquainted with flesh eating bacteria as well as venom. Living in Virginia with the flesh eating brown recluse spider will do that to you. On another note, I hope you're still able to function moderately well. How did you get the bacteria on you in the first place?

[@elephystry]

Dr. House? Is that you?

[@spider-mancantsee5875]

Try suing that shouldn’t be aloud at all, so messed up

[@jextra1313]

I had the same experience with a hospital in Bracebridge, Canada. It took about 2 hours to get from the waiting room to a bed, then another 2 hours of seeing 3 doctors who look like they can't legally get close to needles fumble around with my IV in both arms. Then about three hours of waiting for blood test results, and another hour to get my IV taken out. It was a monday night in a small town at 10pm when it started. I legit got home at 6:30 AM. They discovered that I was dehydrated, which wasn't even the problem, and was probably due to the fact that I didn't drink anything in the hospital. Fucking hell man I feel ya.

[@blacktigerpaw1]

Jpwnage216 The benefits of hiring shitty nurses and doctors, eh?

[@winterlarsime9938]

Jpwnage216 this is probably because of the nationwide shortage of doctors We lose so many each year from suicide alone

[@yeetereater4153]

Jpwnage216 same. I went to the er at 4:30ish pm and didn't get in till 9. My oxygen level was 87 and my pulse was 200 bpm. I didn't leave till 1:30 am

[@prestoneasley7546]

Also because your country has really really shitty free healthcare. When rich people in Canada get sick they go to the US for treatment. Free healthcare is a shitshow.

[@mrengine9]

Im surprised a doc tried to start an iv lol

[@TheLupus07]

My sister had suspected internal bleeding, went to the emergency room of the hospital. Five hours later was given a bed to lie on, another two hours later she was seen. Uk NHS

[@blacktigerpaw1]

TheLupus07 I reckon a lot of people were in the ER with non essential problems.

[@aliciles]

blacktigerpaw1 ya that happens a lot. people come into A&E with headaches and achy limbs. those could be serious but going through your GP and then getting a hospital referral is a lot more sensible. that combined with NHS underfunding resulting in hospitals being understaffed makes for a real crappy experience

[@Schemilix]

UK too. It's awful but the American have the added insult that it costs a fucking load of money to get treated like this.

[@mrelephant2283]

I remember when the NHS wasn’t completely fucked, seems like centuries since that time

[@stevenbean9731]

Schemilix The insult is that if you don’t have insurance you don’t get treated as well. If you can pay they give you the fucking works and hand you a McDonalds quarter pounder afterwards (if you live)

[@ilkeme9399]

pop this one on the moist meter

[@BB0ysGames]

MML Matt probably a 5%

[@Prizm17]

MML Matt hid have to say a 5 as well the manga was better

[@macboi7601]

his voice takes me to 100%

[@shep7544]

MML Matt Instant turn off

[@poinsettiawings]

Pro tip: Last time I went to the ER was when I was "vomiting" blood, I learned that if you walk in with a mini trashcan coated entirely in fresh blood they'll take you immediately and give you a sick ass wheelchair

[@Waffleboxes]

I had a similar situation to the hypothetical you brought up. I had been having severe pain in my side for a few days so I went to the clinic who called ahead and got me admitted to the emergency room. They did their initial check in stuff and taking vitals and then decided the best thing they could do is sit me on a gurney in the hallway from 4pm to 10pm without a single person checking in on me. I wasn't allowed to eat, drink, or walk around. Two anxiety attacks later, I had my girlfriend come to keep me company. When the doctors finally saw me, they gave me an ultrasound which took all of 5 minutes "oh shit lol, you've got appendicitis. We'll chop that shit out in the morning." Cue my appendix bursting at some point in the night

[@WailFin]

Wow. Charlie, I have one thing to say after hearing about your experience. Do the charging stations have a high enough output to work with Motorola TurboCharge? 'Cause I can't be fucked to hang around sick people for more than 15 to 20 minutes, and if it's NOT TurboCharge, that shit could take HOURS. also I guess I'm sorry about your near heart attack not being treated or w/e.

[@jellyfish5008]

WailFin Wow dude 😂

[@taybortalkgaming4885]

You are in look my friend I also have Motorola and yes it does support turbo charge

[@nicknguyen9767]

Hey Charlie, I actually work in an emergency department and as ridiculous as it sounds, Mondays really do absolutely shit on ER's. Now I'm not saying that it warrants 6 hours in the waiting room because that's just fucking ridiculous, but as much as we consider ER's a place for those who are in life or death emergencies, ER's actually get a lot of bullshit. Drunks who cause trouble and need to be detoxed, homeless people, pain med seekers, people who could have easily just gone to their family doctor, people who need chronic treatment but are too irresponsible to make to their appointments and then they try to force the ER to do it. Basically a lot of non-emergent things. And those wastes of space take up rooms, they take up time from doctors, the labs have to process their tests, radiology has to scan them. It's a fucking mess. If I work 4 days full time and it's a particularly spicy week, we'll /maybe/ see up to 5 true medical emergencies. For perspective, I see about 25 patients every shift. So you take that, put it together with Tampa being a big ass city, hospital administration recently boosting their paychecks (the money has to come from somewhere), that specific hospital being a teaching hospital (so there's probably residents among the docs), and you have yourself a perfect example of what happens when you make healthcare more available but can't increase your supply of rooms and doctors.

[@radiomirrorpark819]

Its like the hospitals here. There was a guy in a wheelchair that had like a really swollen foot, and he said he's been there for 7 hours. He told the nurse he was going to leave, and he actually did. Idk what happened to his foot, but I hope he's okay.

[@JanineD9]

i overdosed on benedryl as a suicide attempt but my mom was thankfully around to drive me to the nearest emergency room at around 11pm. there were only 3 other individuals waiting to be admitted but the hospital still took 30mins+ to check on me even though my mom was frantically letting the staff know i was on the brink of death. my heart rate was going 200+ beats per minute, i was extremely disoriented, and i couldnt even walk or move my body. i heard falling asleep while experiencing a drug overdose is not recommended, but a nurse told me i could go to sleep while i waited to be admitted. at least i made it though but damn i didnt realize suicide attempts werent taken seriously.

[@itssk1092]

greg77389 little insensitive there bud.

[@greg77389]

+It's SK So what? Logic trumps sensitivity.

[@itssk1092]

greg77389 Generally suicidal individuals aren't in their right mind, thus logic flies out the window.

[@greg77389]

The same could be said about murders, psychopaths, serial killers, drugged up or drunk thugs/idiots, etc. and do you expect me to feel any kind of sympathy for them?

[@sefono112]

greg77389 So you're basically saying that because she's attractive she doesn't have any valid reason to want to kill herself. And you want to talk about logic........ now I obviously don't know this chick but maybe, she's going through some shit? Could be drastic, could be essentially nothing blown out of proportion. Point I'm trying to make is that you just never know. And if you're going to talk about logic, better have some sound logic behind it. See that, logic. Next time you want to say something ignorant and potentially harmful to a likely young individual close your eyes, visualize spewing hate via the keyboard, mentally click send, then move the fuck on. Probably just wasted 2 minutes of my life typing this because you don't seem like the kind of person to take any value or put any thought process into these types of issues. But at least I can say I tried. Glad you're alright lady, hope you found help.

[@gornthelizardkingofplanete2031]

You know that guy Charlie for the official podcast? He sounds so much like penguins0

[@gornthelizardkingofplanete2031]

With a z

[@ykd5593]

Was this a joke? Orrrrrrrrr

[@ykd5593]

Wew1 year ago

[@thereallonefallout1920]

@@ykd5593 It was

[@LocalHolehead]

I noticed that.... Must be a double. No wonder Cr1t1kal recommended that podcast; he's as shocked as we are.

[@BlackWinds]

I'm glad I was born on Tampa's airforce base instead. I may have been stillborn or my mom may have exploded and died if I was born at Tampa's General Hospital. I mean that was 25 years ago so I'm sure some things would've been different but still.

[@gornthelizardkingofplanete2031]

25... Anime Pfp...

[@chilling2947]

>25 years >anime pfp

[@GreenyZay]

Ahhahahaha

[@trash2958]

Squidwardo I was about to comment the same thing

[@sephen131]

Shout out to macdill

[@Cronos804]

If you go to an emergency ward they rate you on a traffic light system, meaning you are either a "green", "yellow" or "red" and if your red you will usually be treated asap which also implies that if your rated green, you might have to wait multiple hours. Essentially "red" means that you are about to die or losing a bodypart and statistically speaking most hospitals of any size have at least one such patient at almost any point in time. So a lot of things that might seem pretty bad are just yellow on the three color scale. If you think your having a heart attack for 2 hours they already know you are not having a heart attack and probably label you as green - and they wont tell you, so you don't complain about it. People often think this is a bad system, but most other systems work a lot worse since the stuff actually has experience. They have seen people in horrible states and are mostly trying to have enough time in critical moments. That being sad this system often stresses out patients and is a symptom of understaffed hospitals that gets worse the less staff there is. I don't support this system, i just wanted to explain. Stay moist.

[@nmotschidontwannagivemyrea8932]

Too many hospitals are understaffed and nurses and doctors are overworked and sleep deprived, it sucks

[@jesuschrist9513]

Overdosed on heroin and got shipped to the Klamath Falls hospital. Like three nurses or doctors wheeled me into the ER and two went off because they were caught unprepared and needed to get sterile and coats and shit like that so they told the other nurse to stabilize me in a nearby room. Well according to the people nearby she took one look at me, nodded and ran off to the bathroom after they left. She left me dying in a public waiting room because she needed a piss. Thankfully other people saw and called other nurses or doctors or whatever over and they tended to me. Thanks Klamath Falls, crime capital of the Pacific Northwest over here :)

[@Pikana]

>They have good phone charging stations The hospital is so self-aware of this issue they put that in place.

[@ForSquirel]

This is why you dial 911 and ride in by ambulance and hope the medic is smart enough to recognize a heart attack.

[@TDRloid]

I'm sorry this happened to you. I work in a hospital as a medical scribe in the Emergency Department, and I can say that that wait time is pretty bad. For a case like that, even if it were a musculoskeletal issue, we'd try to have your testing and results done within 2-4 hours of being in a bed. I hope you can find a better hospital or get better care next time you have to go there!

[@TacoSnipezZ]

>Florida

[@sauce9703]

>6 Hours

[@sodacan294]

>Orlando

[@gornthelizardkingofplanete2031]

>Vermont

[@winterlarsime9938]

>Kekastani reporting in

[@cesar._.m]

>Hialeah reporting in

[@lronhubbard4911]

I had to go to the ER in Germany, when I visited Europe. I didn't even have an EU insurance. Took 5min waiting time until 2 doctors and 2 nurses took intensive care of me in a clean and private room. They have universal health care. I wanna just live there now. But I guess we're not even allowed there any more...

[@MidtierPrincess]

Reminds me of Hillcrest out here. One night was so busy, I’ll never forget we (the waiting crowd) applauded when someone finally got called back.

[@BLiZIHGUH]

this sounds pretty standard for the emergency room in america. they usually triage you (so if the pain is worse/the condition is more urgent you'll be seen faster). chest pain isn't really indicative of a heart attack so it wouldn't necessarily be seen fast. shit bedside manner that nobody communicated any of this though :/ if you're having an actual emergency (like, you think you have a heart attack) you usually want to call an ambulance, they'll get you in faster.

[@gxexe373]

I hate bringing up healthcare but as a person from a country with free healthcare when I broke my wrist in a horse riding accident it took like 5 hours for me in the hospital, a lot of that just sitting around waiting with a limp wrist and it was kind of bullshit but I thought "hey well healthcare is free so a waits not that bad" but to hear it still happens like this in a country thats pulled every excuse out of the bag for why its still the way it is is really frustrating to hear.

[@truints]

I went to the ER one time and I was literally dying, they finally pulled me back once they saw my white blood cell count was 15x higher than it should be, which meant I was one odd movement away from bursting a grapefruit sized cyst that was tangled up in my intestines that was already leaking into my abdominal cavity. They almost killed me because they didn't think it was serious. I was mad as fuck.

[@riad7685]

There are other hospitals that do this. I was at the local children's hospital emergency room when I was 10. I had appendicitis. They took my x ray at 12 pm. It wasn't seen until 2 am the next morning... i was sent into an emergency surgery and was left in a surgery room for 3 hours with my parents. I am not joking. This is a 1 in 1000000 chance, my acute apendicitis HEALED in the time I was waiting. I told them I didn't feel pain anymore, and they sent me home cause they cannot operate if I don't feel pain. I never had the surgery

[@elephystry]

Riad $10,000 for wasting their time

[@Ledut-in-YT]

Oh wow.

[@spider-mancantsee5875]

That was one place that I’ve never had to wait, but I guess other people have trouble experience with this placw

[@Charles_Anthony]

My grandmother suffered a stroke on Saturday so, she went via Ambulance to the ICU inside of UCI medical center in Orange, CA. She was ignored for eight hours while the surgeons worked on more "Serious" cases all around her. A freaking old man died next to her. Then on Monday she suffered a cerebral hemmerage and had to undergo emergency brain surgery. After the surgery, the doctor, some 26 year old, said everything would be fine and she made it through. Today she's on life support and is basically brain dead.... FUCK HOSPITALS!

[@Charles_Anthony]

Great Danton: She's better off this way. She had Alzheimers.

[@gornthelizardkingofplanete2031]

Charles Anthony if she's better off now then why are you pissed at the hospital?

[@CeraisianAlchemist]

Those are grounds for malpractice. I highly recommend looking into that if you haven't already.

[@brettcasale]

I live pretty close to there, one of my friends has been going there regularly for 10 years and just had to go to a smaller town hospital a couple weeks ago one time and found out he has cancer in his entire body and has had it for years, now it's final stage and there's relatively nothing they can do. Be warry of TGH.

[@cocoabutter1924]

I just moved down to Tampa from Hackensack NJ and the Hackensack hospital is the best, all the times I went there for ER I was seen in under 15 minutes for MINOR issues. I spent no more than an hour there. It really depends on the state I guess

[@chrisdugas1226]

Don't worry. Here in Nova Scotia, Canada where I live, when I was like 11 years old I went in to the hospital because I was having trouble walking because my right knee was in severe, burning pain, throbbing blood and swollen. I had to wait for about 4 and a half hours to see anyone. When I did eventually see the doctor, it turned out that I had a quite severe cellulitis infection from a previous gash on my knee. The worst part is that hear, where I live, there are very few doctors and 4 and a half hours is considered relitively good time. I've met people who have waited in the waiting room for 6, 7 or even 8 hours to get seen. For what it's worth, I might as well have gone in an ambulance, but god knows they probably take 'em out of the ambulance and stick 'em in the waiting room. This was a few years ago and is still the exact same hear and in the rest of the province.

[@Takoto]

I've been to the ER three times in my life and only once have I been there for less than 5+ hours (the second time I had to go in with irregular heart beat and chest pain) - so I feel your pain. But 6+ hours is really common every day in the UK Accident and Emergency department.

[@chickenface521]

Key word: "You weren't the only one waiting". If you were the only that was waiting that long then there's a problem. You can volunteer to be a front desk assistant if they let you, just to greet patients and tell them how long they have to wait and there is nothing that you can do about it. Or you can get a med degree and apply for a job there then be like, "I don't want paid so hospital don't have to relocate resources to pay for my salary." You can even help now. Alot of the patients might just don't know where to go and went to ER instead, maybe alot of the problems can be fixed like dry skins and stuff. You can volunteer to be a lotions expert there and apply lotions for people there with dry skin or other minor problems, you don't need a license for that.

[@SkidMcmarxx]

On your first evaluation they probably didn't think it was life threatening. That's why it took so long. I work in the largest hospital in the BeNeLux, and even we, are understaffed, underequiped and underplayed (for the quality of care that patients expect.). Especially nurses really don't get the adequate amount of money for working often 10 hour shifts, that can continue in for a while during an emergency. I realize that what you went through sucks hard, but I hope you understand that it's not because of unwillingness or incompetence on the hospitals staff behalf. The problem is that we've come to expect a certain quality of care and we want to keep paying less and less for it. I myself am of the opinion that this model isn't stable and I predict a major failure of the healthcare system in the next 20 years or so, unless we either drastically change our healthcare system, or technological advancement totally outpaces the demand for care (which would be awesome.) Again I'm sorry for what you went through. It sounds like it really sucked big time.

[@winterlarsime9938]

SkidMcmarxx I understand what you mean by understaffed When you watch CRACKED, you learn about dark facts. I.e. The high suicide rates

[@DrawinskyMoon]

If you guys are so underpaid then why are the bills so expensive? Where does the money go then if not in your pockets!

[@zemaculate]

@@DrawinskyMoon the government? Insurance? Taxes?

[@3DRiley_]

Reminds of that one time when I had a fracture in my wrist. Had to wait like 3 hours just for the x-ray, which is ok, as long as I didn't move my arm/hand I wasn't in a lot of pain and it most certainly would not kill me if I have to wait but there was another guy in the ER who literally had a blade (I guess it was a knife or similar) stuck in his hand, bloody towel wrapped around it. He was already waiting when I got there and still waiting after I got back from the x-ray.

[@manuelsputnik]

Damn

[@Q_Tura]

Wanna know something "fun"? No? Well to bad I'm gonna still say it. In Québec, Canada, this is normal. It is normal to wait hours and hours in emergency rooms. If you manage to come to the hospital on your own: you are not in an emergency and you can wait. I do not know about the other province of Canada, but Québec is simply awful in term of services in the hospital. I am genuinely happy if I get treatment under three hours.

[@blacktigerpaw1]

Vanesa Yes, we do. Yet I can tell you where the treatment goes.

[@santiagosoto4808]

Yes it is so true once my sister had to wait 12 hours before getting seen by the doctor and it took about 4 hours for the doctor to come see her.

[@Q_Tura]

When I was 6, we had to wait for 7hours during the night with my broken arm in the emergency room. When you're** 6, that shit hurt. When I finally see someone, they told me that we should leave because I was taking a place that *could* be use to save a kid unable to breathe. The refused to help me because another kid *could* be in danger. If they made the kid unable to breathe wait for 7hours, the kid would had been dead 6hours and 50minutes ago. I didn't slept at all that night because we stayed in the emergency room and sleeping with a broken arm is quite difficult.

[@FrecklePhantomhive]

It's free at least..?

[@kooeykooeykooey]

Thought I'd chime in with the Lower Mainland, BC experience. Taking my 60yo father to the hospital for heart attack symptoms (not a heart attack, but an equally serious complication), by ambulance? He was checked in immediately upon arrival and seen by nurses immediately, by a doctor in about 2 hours. Being seen by a nurse is really the important part here; they do the majority of the heavy lifting at hospitals. If you are at the nurse stage, you are not going to die while waiting for a doctor unless you were going to die regardless. And just because the doctor isn't physically there, doesn't mean he's not working on your case--all those tests that nurses/technicians come by to do? Ordered by a doctor based on your symptoms as reported to him by nurses. Physically walking around a hospital takes time, its way more efficient to rely on digital communication systems. Meanwhile, I, a 20yo, go to the hospital by car for a fractured arm? Probably about an hour to get checked in (this was at low-rush time), 2 hours to get into xrays, and another 2 before the doctor came by. There might have been a nurse in there somewhere, but I wasn't checked into a bed, just sat in hallway. Hospitals don't operate on a first-come-first-serve basis, they see the people who are in immediate danger first, and anyone not in immediate danger gets treated in between as time allows. It sucks for the second group, but tbh I would not want to have been seen in the second scenario if it meant that someone else would have died in the meantime. I watched a ton of people arrive after but get called up before me, and that was just the walk-ins. The "hire more staff" answer seems obvious, but it's not really that simple. Not only because usually they already have all the staff they can get--nurses in paticular are in huge demand (and it takes time to train more), but it's fucking hard work and not everyone is capable of doing it. My friend went to nusing school and dropped out along w/ about half the class, and another friend's mom who is a nurse recent retired early b/c of back problems and stress from working 60 h/week for years. A lot of the nurses here are immigrants because we straight up don't have enough people available, were're offering line-jumping and permenant residence to nurses and other medical technicians. And there are other factors: number of beds available, the tests that need to be done and how long they take to process... which is itself dependant upon the equipment available at the hospital. And communication to patients isn't normally a priority. There's never going to be people coming by to let you know what's going on. They have work to do, you'll get seen when you get seen. Yeah, it sucks, but someone coming by to talk to you means that they're not doing any actual work, which just makes the problem worse. My guess in Cr1tikal's case is that he was flagged as a low-risk patient (heart attacks don't happen to young people with prior medical issues) but, it's also a different medical system, so who knows? That being said, I'm glad he's okay and yeah, I agree that it's a shitty situation to be in.

[@LilYungOwlGod]

Hope you feeling better Charlie sorry to hear you were in such pain.

[@sams9688]

I was suffering chest pains, shortness of breath, lightheadedness, symptoms of heart attacks or a Pulmonary Embolism (luckily it was neither) but I was immediately seen and was in and out within 4 hours. While this was a different location and time, I just wanted to express that how long you really had to wait was truly fucked up. It was a scary experience for me and the way my hospital took care of me reassured me, I'm sorry Tampa didn't provide you the same professional experience :c

[@sirc150]

Hey Charlie, could the chest pain have something to do with that collapsed lung you had however many years ago?

[@RazzRightNow]

I got $5 bucks, should I get cheese nips or pierced nips? Also, sorry to hear that, tampa sucks. I am pretty sure that is pure patient abuse if they had to make u wait that long. Find a better hospital or a better place to live.

[@poposterous236]

Cheese, the pierced can be done for free

[@thechannelforeverything2170]

RazzRightNow I think Cheezits are a better value

[@RazzRightNow]

thanks for believing in me Doc. No one ever believed in me like that before! :D

[@RazzRightNow]

Guess I'll have to find some real...*sharp* cheddar :P

[@fromtheh3158]

Lol, no matter where you live you cant escape shitty emergency rooms. Theres people there that shouldnt be and those places are understaffed. Thats why the wait is so long.

[@johnguif4422]

Hahahahaha this is literally my city's hospital. You'll be lucky to wait less than 4 hours. Longest I waited was 11 hours

[@KenzieSFT]

Yup. Same thing in Nova Scotia. I went to the emerg with severe, severe pains and it took 6 1/2 hours of being left alone in a room, with one blood test and putting an IV in my arm for an IV fluid I never was hooked up to. I was given a prescription for antibiotics.

[@CoryPelizzari]

These exact same things happen at Nepean Hospital over here in Australia. People have died in the waiting room, and now the hospital is facing being shut down - but it hasn't yet...

[@Cage313]

This isnt the Tampa General Hospital, but about 8 months ago my dad had to take an ambulance to the ER because around his kidney was debilitating pain. The worst pain hes ever experienced in his life. To where he couldnt move or do anything So they brought him into the ER and put him into a room immediately, knowing how bad he is feeling and left him strapped onto a bed for an hour and a half with no one ever coming to check on him...Eventually someone went to go look at him and noticed that hes about to fucking bleed out and die and his heart rate dropped down to like 40. When most people fucking die, then they decided "Oh shit, we better do something about this now". Turns out an adrenal gland in one of his kidneys had burst because of a tumor that had grown onto the kidney and was cutting it off. So they almost let him die just because they didnt think it was worth looking at.. Currently my dad is in the hospital again, because they didnt bother to check the rest of his body for the cancer to have spread on his regular checkups after that and the cancer spread to his lungs. And you could not fathom the malpractice and "i dont care attitude" hes been getting the entire time. We've almost lost him 5 times now because of Kaiser not doing their job to treat him purposely..One of the doctors we've never even met, before he even started his chemo treatment called my mother on the phone suggesting we just let him die, literally among a who bunch of other horrible things, I could go on and on.

[@mylifecringe4943]

Cage is he doing better, I can’t relate but I can sympathize, I would sue the hospital for every last Pennie they have

[@Cage313]

@@mylifecringe4943 It's funny how I'm coming back to this video now by chance, I forgot I made this comment It's been about a year since he passed away. The horrors of the emergency room weren't the only fucked thing Kaiser did We tried to sue but no lawyers would take the case sadly. Don't ever go there lol, they'll let you die to save a few bucks

[@potato4dawin1]

That's pretty standard in Canada

[@luv223s]

But then again Canada has free healthcare

[@handsomemenace7225]

I don't mind waiting 8 hours if it's free.

[@ChefofWar33]

@@handsomemenace7225 Im sure you wont. Because you'd be dead. lmfao

[@NinjaMoon16]

Reminds me of when I started bleeding internally when I was eighteen years old -- I had developed Ulcerative Colitis which had spread throughout my entire large intestine and was bleeding out pretty badly -- and I went to my local hospital which is just down the street. Because I was uninsured at the time, they released me and told me that I needed to make an appointment with a Gastroenterologist, which couldn't see me until that following Monday; it was Thursday at the time. I went the very next day to my family doctor; at this point I was white as a sheet, my gums and tongue were completely lacking of color, I was incapable of walking on my own (my mother literally needed to CARRY me in there), and my doctor ended up rushing me to the emergency room of another hospital when I completely lost consciousness right outside of her office, where THEIR doctors told me that had I waited until Monday to see the specialist they recommended, I would have died. I was literally bleeding to DEATH when I went to them and was released. I needed three bags of Iron and two blood transfusions to save my life. So... yeah. American healthcare...

[@ItzRetz]

As a fellow hypochondriac, I can feel your pain. Luckily I have a doctors office close to my house where the wait is anywhere from instant to an hour, so I have it lucky. I swear I went to them 50+ times in a year just for random shit I thought was serious but ended up being nothing, but luckily here in Australia it's free. Healthy Anxiety sucks so bad, I can't imagine having it in America where you'd have to pay to see doctors.

[@RdClZn]

That's nothing. When I got stabbed in the head during a robbery I had to stay overnight, since they didn't have any doctors that could sign my release after having done my stitches. There was this one couple next to my bed (which was, no kidding, a stretch that they put in a corridor for me to sleep). Dude had suffered an accident. A health technician was trying to make them decide quicker: Either amputate his hand there, or wait till a doctor come tomorrow to try his chances at a reconstructive surgery, which might go wrong, and he could very well lose his arm. Dude wasn't being nowhere near as chill as I sound right now, it was more like "You could wait, but then again, you might lose your whole arm... " He then left them alone for a bit to come back later, while his girlfriend hugged him and they both sobbed. Public hospitals in Brazil suck, and I wasn't even in a bad one, all things considered.

[@DrPaddster]

Hm, it's almost as if healthcare in the States prioritizes maximizing profit over the welfare of patients.

[@cogcog5264]

It’s almost like businesses universally care more about profit than people, it’s insane how it works like that

[@DrAiPatch]

Well since we are talking about Hospitals. a few months back I popped a tendon in my finger. so I go to my local ER..... Didn't really wait too long and I was in no hurry since it didn't hurt or anything they take one Xray and I talk to a DR for 10 mins (and all he did was tell me to see another DR) ...... And somehow that was worth 634$..... Thank god I have health insurance.....Like fuck, someone needs to tell me how 1 Xray and a 10 min talk is worth 600$+

[@DrAiPatch]

I'm pretty sure I got to see a DR fast because of my nothing injury...... Funny thing is they thought it was dislocated (Even after the Xray) up until 5 seconds before they stuck me with a huge ass needle.

[@danoz67]

Oh damn. Only $634? That's actually pretty cheap! If you got admitted it would have been like $10,000 per day. For comparison an ambulance ride is like $900, and a CT scan is $1,200.

[@epicguy5005]

Imagine having to pay to go to the hospital :(

[@fenrirhere]

XRays are probably expensive my man.

[@ぐえ-p2u]

I got the same thing a few days ago, it normally happens to me while I'm sleeping and when I wake up I feel it and normally freeze and power through it but the recent time it stayed for 6 ish hours and I was feeling horrible and I called the hospital they said it was the heart irritated by something that rubbed against it and that it would go away and if it didn't go to the hospital immediately. That's why you call the hospital

[@joet.5745]

ぐえ stop drinking sugar drinks

[@Nantorias]

NO

[@serapheir]

I'm from New Zealand and I had to go to the emergency room at a public hospital when I was 11. I had very obviously broken my collar bone (the bone overlapped eachother when it broke). Got there at 7pm and left at 3am with some painkiller, but only after having an allergic reaction to the morphine they gave me. All good because they couldn't do much, I would've been low priority no doubt, but man was that waiting room freezing. It's easy to understand if they're busy when I knew my life wasn't being threatened but if it was, it'd be another story. Interesting how all hospitals seem to be like this worldwide. Plus side it was free!

[@discipleofsound4565]

I had a nearly identical situation a year or two again. Massive chest pains late at night, went to the ER, sat around for 3 hours with no one seeing me, gave up and went home. (This was my local hospital, not Tampa)

[@spiderplant]

In Massachusetts, a mishandled case of mine got an ER director fired and a total re-training of remaining staff. Contact higher-ups at the hospital, and let them know how bad the situation is.

[@CeraisianAlchemist]

I'm really curious as to what happened to you, if you don't mind me saying so.

[@rotundspecimen3770]

Have you tried urgent care? Or is that only down here in south Miami?

[@duty5127]

Hell yeah man, those Baptist centers are awesome. Been there a few times, and it's basically in and out.

[@scitechian]

Urgent care is almost always better than ER if both are available.

[@Bombay1618]

Also get tested for Lupus. No, I am serious. 23 is really young to get a DVT unless you have some autoimmune disorder such as Lupus.

[@7ele5crivente]

I don't know how ER works in US but here in Italy the first thing we do is called "triage", where a trained nurse makes the first visit consisting in ECG, blood pressure, emogas and general questions about your symptoms. So you get a code: green (nothing bad), yellow (a little bad, could be worst) and red (very bad). After that if you have green or yellow code you may have to wait pretty much the same amount of time, depending on the emergencies. In your case tho, a simple ECG would have been enough to make sure your heart was OK.

[@sidhionoakbranch4871]

That's just how emergency wards are. My sister went there just last week because she had such horrible stomach cramps she couldn't move, so she had to be carried into the waiting room. Took a little more than 8 hours for her to be admitted. So if you're going to the emergency ward, you better hope what you have isn't life threatening.

[@Softagg]

I'm glad you're okay! Sorry about the terrifying experience. It's definitely not assuring to be waiting with something as serious as chest pain, but at the same time I can see them prioritizing other patients over you (basically if you're still conscious, they're gonna triage someone over you). play dead next time (jk)

[@Tritonite5]

I'm sorry it sucked so much. When evaluating your priority level they really should have told you they didn't think it was a heart attack and was likely not serious or urgent. They really should have more doctors to reduce the wait times but maybe it's not cost-effective enough or a shortage of doctors.

[@manuelsputnik]

Understaffed and overworked nurses/doctors probably. Or perhaps an issue with the hospital itself.

[@dumpshack9781]

It sounds like this was your first time in an emergency room

[@cheerio8210]

Next time go to the Brandon or Riverview hospital, TGH sucks

[@streetkaos7]

Gabe Ocampo I like the Florida hospital near usf they're always fast I never had to wait more than 10min

[@streetkaos7]

Brandon hospital used to suck though which was seeing I live less than 5min away but I made sure to get to the other hospital lol

[@samuelb.6590]

I go to St.Josephs

[@Shea-Key]

@@streetkaos7 Brandon regional was ass until a few years ago

[@REDACTEDGAME]

it happens here too in Canada, even though we got free heath care, we still gotta wait like an hour or two just to get into a second waiting room for the doctor to sit you on a bed then leave for another half hour

[@pr4nkanime]

This has been my experience of any emergency room honestly. I had Otitis Externa (severe ear infection) and the pain was so bad I couldn't sleep. Ears were just pulsating painfully constantly. I went to the emergency room, living in Georgia. Took them 3 hours to see me. I sat in the waiting room and there was literally no one else there. They finally saw me, gave me meds that didn't help so I had to do the same thing like 2 days later. Finally gave me ear drops and hyrdrocodone. Both times the wait was just ridiculous, though the 2nd time it was very busy. Emergency rooms suck no matter where you go.

[@TheRealDerohneNick]

Huh, I actually love Les Misérables...

[@malvient]

"Luckily my chest pain, they didn't think it was cardiac, they thought it was more muscular..." And that's why you waited 6 hours.

[@MrCooldude4172]

Calvin Hunter yeah but they only found that out AFTER they saw him.

[@jayharr8839]

Lol the ER shouldnt have you waiting for 6 hours lol.

[@ItsJustMilkISwear]

cooldude 4172 they did the EKG within the first hour he got there. he simply wasn't informed that he was fine until the doctors were done dealing with patients who had actual medical emergencies. if it were a real heart attack, they would have treated him. since it wasn't, they made him wait.

[@cocobarnhart8288]

Can you personally take out your phone, and say into it's microphone " Your pain is likely not cardio, but more possibly muscular, and we're going to have you wait and we'll observe if any changes occur" and then tell me how long that took to say? My time was about 6 hours, but I think you might be able to do better!

[@ItsJustMilkISwear]

William Barnhart try doing that while also trying to save someone with stab wounds to their chest. you might start to figure out how priorities work.

[@darkpandemic3953]

Sounds like attaway general to me

[@Shamrock34]

I worked as an EMT in Pasco (about an hour away from Tampa) and the sad thing is, Tampa general is known to be one of the best, and most advanced hospitals to go in the state lol. We had plenty of patients specifically ask to be taken there via our ambulance. My suggestion is go via ambulance next time if you feel it's an emergency, you will get an immediate EKG in the ambulance, and the paramedic will know whether or not you're having a heart attack. To be honest you're in better hands with a paramedic than most nurse practitioners you would get at a hospital in FL, which when any of the hospitals are busy you will never even see a damn doctor, only NP's, or PA's.

[@goodlyboony]

Holy crap. Last time I was in this channel was dark souls 3. I feel like it's been an eternity. Feels good to be here again

[@snipsnip9442]

"I thought Les Mis was so bad that it gave me a heart attack" Is it really that bad? I haven't seen it please tell me

[@peterwilliams4106]

Should've gone to Attaway General

[@hufman9807]

Like a virgin waiting for marriage 😂

[@CathOfRlyeh]

man this is bullshit, I'm sorry you had to go through that lmao, what's worse is i just realized people are stupid, you only have 6 mil subs, but you're one of the funniest people on KZbin, damn shame they're missing out dude

[@unofficial_ai]

I broke my wrist in an ATV accident. I got to the hospital at around 7 in the evening, and I finally got out of the waiting room at 3 in the morning to go see a doctor. That was a real blast. Edit: TL:DR I had to sit in a waiting room for 8 hours.

[@hess2390]

Aren't emergency rooms meant for like if you're about to die and urgent care is to be seen if you're not about to literally drop dead

[@beefaroniforvegans2813]

That's Florida

[@IncrediblePanda]

The hospital isn't blameless but this is probably what really happened just judging from your story: 1. You arrive at the ER. If it's true that it took an hour for your vitals/blood to be taken that is indeed bad, however maybe they were swamped with work. 2. The doctor gets your vitals and other results on a computer screen. He sees no Trop spike or abnormal ECG. At this point judging by your age and tests it's almost certain your pains are not caused by a heart attack. The doctor logically marks you as an extremely low priority patient. 3. ER's are typically loaded with work and while it's unfortunate that no one at least popped in to communicate with you it's really shitty to blame the hospital for the fact that you had to wait long. You weren't a priority patient, end of story. What I'm trying to point at here is that the hospital doesn't just leave you there hanging, you were marked low priority in triage and that's the cause of your long wait. Not to play the devils advocate or anything but a lot of people give hospitals unnecessary shit when actually they're just unfamiliar with how an ER operates

[@youthmember9981]

IncrediblePanda I understand priority and stuff but over 5 hours is still extreme

[@IncrediblePanda]

Okay, that's unfortunate. Hope your mother turned out ok! I'm not saying "all hospitals are perfect" just trying to present a different viewpoint.

[@Tara13050]

even on busy days when i was pretty low priority, i've gotten out of the hospital within a couple of hours here in west virginia. so i don't really think that's the excuse.

[@bellspeppers]

Not to come off as rude or anything but you're comparing West Virginia with Florida. Specifically south-east FL which is heavily populated by older people and general retirees who, as IncrediblePanda pointed out, are at a much higher risk of being placed into high priority due to being at an increased risk of heart disease. Maybe it's a bit of devils advocate and while I personally would be upset with waiting for a while to be told I was fine, well, there's a reason they do things the way they do. It's unfortunate and everything for Charlie but I had a similar situation happen to me when living in south TX that resulted in many hours of pain and even then it was a low-priority situation. It sucked, sure, but personally I'd feel bad if someone who urgently needed the care before me was pushed aside to handle my, while painful, minimal problem.

[@TehSteveo1225]

Everything Panda said here is pretty true. Few things though, the ED in this case should have not delayed taking vitals/EKG for a chest pain At the very least. It's not hard to bring someone back to an area to do these items, then have them go back once done when you at least know the EKG is not abnormal with a doctor looking over it. Additionally, labs can also be easily be done as someone could get labs drawn at the very least so something is done while they're waiting, so when they do get a bed they don't have further waits for these tasks. Possibly the only thing that could help would be a provider in an area adjacent to the waiting area to see people, to talk to them, and quickly assess to make sure there isn't something more life threatening being as a simple abdominal pain could be just gas to appendicitis to a triple A(abdominal aortic aneurysm). Yet, at the very least, they should have communicated more what was going on with Charlie; E.G. "Your EKG is normal and we are doing labs right now to just to make sure. Yet we don't feel it's your heart causing this pain so we need to wait longer. We understand you're in pain, we want to help, but it's busy and we have more critical patients that need to be seen." Yet, after that there's only so much that can be done as usually staffing is not the issue versus not enough rooms and there's more people coming in faster than they are being discharged, admitted, and the like. This hospital Charlie went to is also a Level 1 Trauma Center which also means high priority traumas where life and/or limb are threatened are being taking to as they need to be stabilized to get on an operating table. So, these people are going to take priority over someone with a less severe issue. Honestly, the only advice in that situation is if they have you waiting that long as well is you are allowed to leave to go elsewhere if possible. You may get in to see a doctor at an other facility much quicker.

[@jenicpizarro]

My mom works at TGH in the NICU and says they’re ridiculously understaffed and not allowed to do overtime because the company doesn’t want to shell out anymore money to nurses and specialists who are keeping infants alive

[@vplusultra]

Same in Germany. Once drilled my hand by accident, right in the thumb, we were afraid that it severed tendons, so we went to the hospital emergency unit. They wanted me to sign papers before the actual treatment, and wouldn't accept like 3 x's because I drilled my writing hand. Then we waited for about an hour before we were called in. The nurse complained that we didn't come earlier because it was almost to late to stich the wound. (If you dont know you have about one hour before stiching gets useless for some reason and they have to glue it) The doctor was good tho. He explained that the wound wasnt big enough to use aesthetics on and told me it would hurt a bit, did the one stich and we were done.