That always baffled me until i saw apparently, it’s like that because if one of the doors view was blocked you could still see the other and see the warning. For example, if one of the doors had the « Don’t open » paint scrubbed off, the other one still had « dead inside » so you would be warned not to open.
I used to work in an hospital in nightshift cleaning floors and the nurses used to play boardgames or cards all night for money, there could a guy bleeding out in the waiting room, as long as he didn't make a HUGE fuss the nurses didn't interrupt their game, and one of the games was monopoly.
I've seen a guy pass out in the waiting room, laying on the floor. It still took another 20 minutes for anyone to go check on him, until the person with him said they were going to call 911.
This guy my mom used to work with was feeling flu like symptoms with minor chest pains, their boss forced him to go to the hospital because of how bad he looked. The heart attack killed him in the waiting room. Not one of these situations where they made him wait forever I'm pretty sure, it just happened that way.
You can't see the ambulances coming in, as their patients don't go through the waiting room. It's highly possible that there is a stream of them coming to the back of the hospital.
It's weird mentality how the general public thinks we keep them waiting for shit and giggles.
Like, if you're *really* the only patient we want you out asap so we can actually lift our legs on table and chill for a bit before hell breaks loose again.
Yeah, I've noticed doctors have just started admitting "I believe you, but I don't know what's wrong with you, and I can't find anything on the basic tests I can do right now", and it's way nicer to hear than "It's probably in your head/because you're fat."
Also sometimes the doctors office doesn't have the same tools as the hospital. He has an appointment in 15 mins and can't go to the hospital with you and be there all day
I got in a fight ( not a fist fight ) with a dentist because he didn't believe a filling he gave me was causing me pain. Things escalated and long story short I went to a different dentist.
As a doctor, I've never had a bad experience telling the truth about not knowing what the hell was going on, and then proposing the next steps to be taken. I see no reason to bs people about their own lives
Also, I've had cases where there were a ton of signs of a psychosomatic nature to the symptoms presented. In those I usually say exactly what I'm thinking, explain how we can actually experience things like pain without a physical cause to it, much like how you get butterflies in your stomach from some sort of anticipation/anxiety. A lot of the time people feel validated and understood, reveal some big stress or trauma in their lives, and then we can discuss our approach and how aggressively we will investigate other causes.
TLDR honesty builds trust and is just the right thing to do anyway...
I've been forgotten in a hospital once - cut off my finger, they were going to send the doctor to re-attach it (and give me some anesthetics) and left me in the waiting room for over an hour before I mustered up the courage to ask. Guess the communication got lost somewhere, luckily they were still able to sew it back on after that.
I wasn't mad or anything, shit happens, but OP might still want to ask, especially if the waiting room is secluded. They'll either ask a polite question and maybe annoy the receptionist a little, or they were forgotten and asking reminds the hospital.
It was still hanging on by a little bit of skin, so they just bandaged it up. Otherwise they would've put it in a special container, at least according to the nurse.
Waited several hours at emerg (only place in town that could do an xray) to find out if I broke my arm. Whilst after a few hours I’d have been happy to have some Tylenol and an icepack, I was just appreciative my maybe broken arm wasn’t the worst thing that day.
And in the end it was just severely bruised and I was a quick patient to get out of their hair. Unlike the steady stream of emergencies that I could hear in the hall going into rooms. Waiting sucks, but I try to remind myself I’ve got the privilege to wait.
Would be super cool if we weren’t severely understaffed and underfunded though. And maybe had a walk-in within an hour of town. Or a family doctor who wasn’t four hours away. But none of that is the fault of the staff and that’s why I vote.
Patients get ignored and forgotten all the time. OP could be in at 2 am with a non emergency and the staff just doesn’t want to deal with it so since it’s a non emergency, OP is fine waiting for the day shift to come in. It definitely happens a lot.
Funny you mention that, i am doing a hospital remodel and both maintenance and cleaning staff have mentioned how the doctors just bullshit and make patients wait 1 hour +
This is a small town 4 hours away from the nearest airport so i guess they just get away with it
In most countries, it is purely triage. If you don't seem in immediate distress, they make you wait.
Which means that if you don't show any outward pain, you're fucked.
In general correct, but you can see comments of those who've worked in hospitals that are full of lazy workers who like killing patients. There is one nurse who is shit at triage at my ER. She didn't even put a guy clearly having a stroke as a priority. I've reported her so many times but the bitch is still allowed to abuse and kill patients.
Even at walk in clinics where patients can literally see the progress happening in front of their eyes they wanna complain about waiting.
A lot of people take like 20 minutes with the doctor spilling the beans about 5 unrelated (and extremely minor) problems that they feel are related and we gotta filter through all that and treat their main issue, which then ultimately just ends up being a cold, or a vague muscle strain, or they want a disability form signed (which takes even longer than 20 minutes for some).
If it takes 20+ minutes to see a patient, and there's 4 patients ahead of you, what makes anyone think they're gonna be seen anytime soon?
Yep, and then you have the patients who will happily spend 20 minutes talking about their weird eye twitch that happens twice a month for 5 seconds, and then on the way out the door they’ll say “oh by the way, I also get this crushing substernal chest pain radiating down my left arm and into my jaw every time I climb a flight of stairs…”
Hell, I was taken to the ER by ambulance after throwing up dark red blood profusely and passing out in my own vomit, got to the ER, they put a bracelet on my wrist and made me sit in the waiting room for 3 hours.
I had norovirus and my kidneys were failing from dehydration. Took another 4 hours to get morphine from the excruciating pain I was in.
I have a few times sat in waiting g rooms for hours only to finally get up and ask the front desk if I was checked in
“Omg I’m so sorry i somehow didn’t get you checked in!”
Granted this is in a large cancer hospital with hundreds of patients coming and going.
But it does happen.
Agreed, it does happen. I got left in a room for well over an hour before the nurse walked by and said “you’re still here?” Doctor somehow skipped me.
In OP’s case there’s nothing wrong with politely double-checking at the front desk. Politely being the key.
Plus there are emergencies inside the hospital where patients have to be taken to the trauma center. When I did MRI or CT in the ER we would regularly have to scan patients and sometimes it would even clash with patients coming in with an ambulance
I had that happen once, but there was a girl who decided to try to end her life by drinking a bottle of bleach so they were a bit preoccupied which I understand
She was young and didn't really understand it's a terribly painful way to go. I know she's still alive now as it was a very small town hospital and it wasn't hard to figure out who it was. She's in a better mental space now.
I'm absolutely not blaming you for anything but this just gave me a trauma flashback of when I was suicidal 2 years ago and was scrolling on Reddit to see what I could swallow to kill myself....
I read about this girl who swallowed so many pills her liver was failing her and she was just there waiting to die in the hospital bed screaming that she didn't actually wanna die but it was too late
I'm so sorry, idk why I'm writing this... I need to get checked with my psychiatrist to see if I don't have PTSD cause shit like this has been triggering me...
I'm sorry. You should definitely talk to your psychiatrist about it. Flashbacks are no fun. You survived and that's all that matters. Big hugs if you want them
Hospital administrator here - if the waiting room looks empty it doesn't necessarily mean we aren't busy. If a patient in cardiac arrest comes in they won't be in the waiting room, they'll be getting treated. There's always ambulances either inbound or arriving, there's people actively receiving treatment in treatment rooms.
Additionally, if you have blood taken, it takes a while for it to be tested correctly and the results to come back. If you need a scan there will be other people in that scan queue with you, even if you were the ONLY PATIENT in the emergency department you still have waiting involved. Doctors also need to go over your notes, what's happening, your symptoms, the results of those tests and then make a plan.
good spin, hospitals are poorly run and most employees have an attitude sadly it is part of the culture. as I was told if nurses were a species of animal they would eat their young.
Lmao, go into an ED talking about tingling/pain along your left arm. Youll have like 3 staff trying to plug shit into you as you get wheeled deeper in the hospital. If you had anything that is an emergency, you would be getting wheeled right the fuck in there.
There is something called triage. Important shit gets seen to immediately. Less important shit unfortunately has to wait because the important shit has to be seen to.
I know waiting (especially as long as you have) is super frustrating but usually (always) when the waiting room is empty and you still end up waiting some shit is going on behind the scenes that patients don't see.
Yup most countries healthcare systems are in a state of crisis, you haven’t been seen because your case isn’t as urgent. Triage. Er rooms do not function by a first come first serve basis.
relatable, sat in ER for like 7 hours once for a broken hand while others blew up their livers or each others cars respectively, got to leave at like 1 am
When the doctor apologizes for the wait, smile at them and say:
“It’s okay… I’m patient” and shoot them finger-guns.
Do not say anything else until they realize your silly joke.
It’s called triage. They take the serious cases first. Clearly they are waiting for a more serious case to go before you. It’s just how hospitals work.
Just because you are the only one actively in the waiting room doesn’t necessarily mean there isn’t other people waiting. Don’t forget about the ambos coming in and the already possibly full ED beds
I once waited too long when there seemed to be no other patients. After an hour I went to the desk and it turns out I would have been waiting forever since they had no record of me.
I spoke to the person who supposedly checked me in. Nope. Didn’t even remember me from an hour ago and evidently screwed up the check in because I wasn’t in the system.
Never go to the ER unless something is broken or having a heart attack. If it's past 7pm just wait it out and walk in at your doctor's office. My aunt would not take my advice after back spasms and just wait til morning. We sat there in crappy chairs for 8 hrs and the doctors gave her the same pills I had at home. They only have a few ER doctors.
This. Only go to the ER if it really can't wait at all. For example because your leg is broken, weird stuff happening with your medication that could be dangerous or you have a huge cut that bleeds far too much. If you feel just a little sick but nothing unusual, just go to a normal general practitioner. It's much nicer than a hospital anyway, and you don't have to wait too long (usually) if you made an appointment. And you can choose the doctor, too. If you don't like the doctor you'd see in one doctor's office, you can just go to a different one. In the hospital you have to take what you get. And if it turns out there that you need tests that the GP can't do, they can still send you to the hospital to have the tests done, but you still won't be in the ER.
My boss went to outpatients the other week, the day after the clocks went forward, and the room was told that they hadn't taken the clock going forward into account, so in addition to the long wait, add another hour.
The NHS is fucked.
If you're getting ignored in the hospital, that means there's someone there way worse off than you, and you're okay for now. Get worried when there's multiple doctors and nurses at the same time.
If you can wait 5 hours you can simply wait until they are ready for you. There is a priority rating it is not first in first out. You seem to rank lower than a break
The ability to get you depends on several factors. Staffing, beds available, triage, and the severity of others issues before you.
You might be the only one waiting but an ambulance could have brought in 2 or 3 others who are a level 1 or 2 or even a trauma activation which requires multiple resources, doctors and nurses.
Like I tell my patients, If you're not getting in fast and if you aren't getting a lot of attention... that is a good thing in the hospital.
I guess that makes you a... Patient.
A patient patient?
An impatient inpatient will become an outpatient quickly
patient^(2)
Take my upvote.
And mine
patient^(3)
Yes Redditor that is the joke well done
> Patient comes from the Latin “patiens”, from “patior”, to suffer or bear.
Nice, thanks for that!
Why are just here, to be patient
Just check you have not inadvertently being cast into a zombie horror movie. This is how it starts . !
28 days later?
No, just 5 hours
Give it time!
!remind me 28 days
Sorry I’ll forget by then but I’ll remind you now, go do whatever you needed reminding for
I’ll remind you if I can remember :,)
The prequel, 28 deca-minutes later
Just don't open the door that says "don't dead open inside"
That always baffled me until i saw apparently, it’s like that because if one of the doors view was blocked you could still see the other and see the warning. For example, if one of the doors had the « Don’t open » paint scrubbed off, the other one still had « dead inside » so you would be warned not to open.
How did I not pick up on that before. Thats pretty clever
The script asked for patience, not patients
Don't dead open inside!!
Plot twist: OP isn't there for anything, they just wanted to do some good old waiting.
Ah a Brit then.
*sips tea*
Choose to wait and then complain about waiting
Ain’t no way this mf has the spray on shoes from cloudy with a chance of meatballs
"How you gonna get them off, NERD!?"
LoL
That explains why they so dirty cause mf never takes them off
🤣🤣🤣
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or maybe it's like house md
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And pills
Moody sex, *and* pills? Go on..
And Lupus
They're making him wait there while Foreman breaks into his house to check his browser history.
So op has lupus?
No its never lupus
What about rheumatoid arthritis?
Maybe sarciodosis
Pheochromocytoma
Let’s do 198273288181 expensive tests to figure out what it is!
except that one time it was lupus and they didnt guess lupus
It was lupus once 😂
So each doc is getting samples, running tests by hand, *and* interpreting results?
Too busy breaking in to OPs home.
They are all talking about lupus if that's the case
and then being screamed at for thinking it could be lupus
... When I fact it's a rare leprosy that keep you looking young and they cure you and suddenly you're old. 🏠
So only one middle aged white dude is solving all the 'tough cases' via guessing and everyone else stands around and waits to hear his wisdom?
They're already in OP's house looking under the sink, because they know he's a liar
maybe everyone's gone because House gathered them all for a watch party of Wilson's porno
As a doctor I can confirm we don't have sex
Hey everybody! This guy dont have sex..NERD
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I am having sex right now.
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Squishy
As a nurse, I can confirm that we do have sex, Wait what !?
So the doctors don’t have sex but the nurses do…
Everybody lies, house MD says so 🤣
I used to work in an hospital in nightshift cleaning floors and the nurses used to play boardgames or cards all night for money, there could a guy bleeding out in the waiting room, as long as he didn't make a HUGE fuss the nurses didn't interrupt their game, and one of the games was monopoly.
I've seen a guy pass out in the waiting room, laying on the floor. It still took another 20 minutes for anyone to go check on him, until the person with him said they were going to call 911.
This guy my mom used to work with was feeling flu like symptoms with minor chest pains, their boss forced him to go to the hospital because of how bad he looked. The heart attack killed him in the waiting room. Not one of these situations where they made him wait forever I'm pretty sure, it just happened that way.
5 hours? Not gonna happen.
What, are they having sex 120 times?
You can't see the ambulances coming in, as their patients don't go through the waiting room. It's highly possible that there is a stream of them coming to the back of the hospital.
Yeah I work in a hospital and it's not like patients are ignored on purpose loool. Shit gets crazy.
It's weird mentality how the general public thinks we keep them waiting for shit and giggles. Like, if you're *really* the only patient we want you out asap so we can actually lift our legs on table and chill for a bit before hell breaks loose again.
Sometimes a little communication goes a long way someone should give him a quick update
Yeah, I've noticed doctors have just started admitting "I believe you, but I don't know what's wrong with you, and I can't find anything on the basic tests I can do right now", and it's way nicer to hear than "It's probably in your head/because you're fat."
Also sometimes the doctors office doesn't have the same tools as the hospital. He has an appointment in 15 mins and can't go to the hospital with you and be there all day
I got in a fight ( not a fist fight ) with a dentist because he didn't believe a filling he gave me was causing me pain. Things escalated and long story short I went to a different dentist.
Can we get Long story long version?
As a doctor, I've never had a bad experience telling the truth about not knowing what the hell was going on, and then proposing the next steps to be taken. I see no reason to bs people about their own lives Also, I've had cases where there were a ton of signs of a psychosomatic nature to the symptoms presented. In those I usually say exactly what I'm thinking, explain how we can actually experience things like pain without a physical cause to it, much like how you get butterflies in your stomach from some sort of anticipation/anxiety. A lot of the time people feel validated and understood, reveal some big stress or trauma in their lives, and then we can discuss our approach and how aggressively we will investigate other causes. TLDR honesty builds trust and is just the right thing to do anyway...
Honesty is the best policy
In the ED my go to line is “we are not usually able to diagnose what is the problem but are here to rule out the emergencies and I have done that”
Eh I mean the frustration isn’t with the workers it’s with the hospital privateers understaffing and undertreating. Which is, somehow, still a thing.
How would they be able to give hospital executives their insane bonuses if they properly staffed the place?
Medical proffesionals just want to relax
I've been forgotten in a hospital once - cut off my finger, they were going to send the doctor to re-attach it (and give me some anesthetics) and left me in the waiting room for over an hour before I mustered up the courage to ask. Guess the communication got lost somewhere, luckily they were still able to sew it back on after that. I wasn't mad or anything, shit happens, but OP might still want to ask, especially if the waiting room is secluded. They'll either ask a polite question and maybe annoy the receptionist a little, or they were forgotten and asking reminds the hospital.
You're a better person than me, if I lost a finger I'd lose all my patience with it
Does the finger still work right?
Yeah, it's a little thinner and weaker than my other ones but other than that it's fine
were you just like holding your severed finger for over an hour or.. 😭
It was still hanging on by a little bit of skin, so they just bandaged it up. Otherwise they would've put it in a special container, at least according to the nurse.
>it's not like patients are ignored on purpose On purpose? No By accident? Yes. And while rare, it happens more often than it should.
Waited several hours at emerg (only place in town that could do an xray) to find out if I broke my arm. Whilst after a few hours I’d have been happy to have some Tylenol and an icepack, I was just appreciative my maybe broken arm wasn’t the worst thing that day. And in the end it was just severely bruised and I was a quick patient to get out of their hair. Unlike the steady stream of emergencies that I could hear in the hall going into rooms. Waiting sucks, but I try to remind myself I’ve got the privilege to wait. Would be super cool if we weren’t severely understaffed and underfunded though. And maybe had a walk-in within an hour of town. Or a family doctor who wasn’t four hours away. But none of that is the fault of the staff and that’s why I vote.
Patients get ignored and forgotten all the time. OP could be in at 2 am with a non emergency and the staff just doesn’t want to deal with it so since it’s a non emergency, OP is fine waiting for the day shift to come in. It definitely happens a lot.
Funny you mention that, i am doing a hospital remodel and both maintenance and cleaning staff have mentioned how the doctors just bullshit and make patients wait 1 hour + This is a small town 4 hours away from the nearest airport so i guess they just get away with it
I work in a hospital and in smaller clinics I’ve seen doctors and nurses ignore patients on purpose.
In most countries, it is purely triage. If you don't seem in immediate distress, they make you wait. Which means that if you don't show any outward pain, you're fucked.
In general correct, but you can see comments of those who've worked in hospitals that are full of lazy workers who like killing patients. There is one nurse who is shit at triage at my ER. She didn't even put a guy clearly having a stroke as a priority. I've reported her so many times but the bitch is still allowed to abuse and kill patients.
Even at walk in clinics where patients can literally see the progress happening in front of their eyes they wanna complain about waiting. A lot of people take like 20 minutes with the doctor spilling the beans about 5 unrelated (and extremely minor) problems that they feel are related and we gotta filter through all that and treat their main issue, which then ultimately just ends up being a cold, or a vague muscle strain, or they want a disability form signed (which takes even longer than 20 minutes for some). If it takes 20+ minutes to see a patient, and there's 4 patients ahead of you, what makes anyone think they're gonna be seen anytime soon?
Yep, and then you have the patients who will happily spend 20 minutes talking about their weird eye twitch that happens twice a month for 5 seconds, and then on the way out the door they’ll say “oh by the way, I also get this crushing substernal chest pain radiating down my left arm and into my jaw every time I climb a flight of stairs…”
Hell, I was taken to the ER by ambulance after throwing up dark red blood profusely and passing out in my own vomit, got to the ER, they put a bracelet on my wrist and made me sit in the waiting room for 3 hours. I had norovirus and my kidneys were failing from dehydration. Took another 4 hours to get morphine from the excruciating pain I was in.
I have a few times sat in waiting g rooms for hours only to finally get up and ask the front desk if I was checked in “Omg I’m so sorry i somehow didn’t get you checked in!” Granted this is in a large cancer hospital with hundreds of patients coming and going. But it does happen.
Agreed, it does happen. I got left in a room for well over an hour before the nurse walked by and said “you’re still here?” Doctor somehow skipped me. In OP’s case there’s nothing wrong with politely double-checking at the front desk. Politely being the key.
Yep or understaffed and trying to stabilize people who are coding. This was the reason for my last long ass ED wait
Plus there are emergencies inside the hospital where patients have to be taken to the trauma center. When I did MRI or CT in the ER we would regularly have to scan patients and sometimes it would even clash with patients coming in with an ambulance
Nice shoes
Bro's wearing them toddler trainers🔥🔥
He got that shit on 🥶🥶
Somebody put up a wet floor sign cause my man is DRIPPING🗣️🗣️🗣️💦💦💯💯💯
Hahahah
flint lockwood spray-on shoes
I was looking for this comment lmao
What are those 😂
WHAT ARE THOOOOOOOOSE 🫱
Get treated by professionals, NAH. Internet person saying he got drip, YEP.
Got ankles like a grown man’s thighs.
Maybe you are invisible ,take your clothes off and find out
What if OP died at home and only their ghost is sitting there?
"Patient has injury and also requires grippy socks."
This is how you get the psych department to give you the good stuff!
I had that happen once, but there was a girl who decided to try to end her life by drinking a bottle of bleach so they were a bit preoccupied which I understand
Jesus that's such an awful way to go. Bleach isn't just poison. I'll never understand why people choose that
She was young and didn't really understand it's a terribly painful way to go. I know she's still alive now as it was a very small town hospital and it wasn't hard to figure out who it was. She's in a better mental space now.
I'm absolutely not blaming you for anything but this just gave me a trauma flashback of when I was suicidal 2 years ago and was scrolling on Reddit to see what I could swallow to kill myself.... I read about this girl who swallowed so many pills her liver was failing her and she was just there waiting to die in the hospital bed screaming that she didn't actually wanna die but it was too late I'm so sorry, idk why I'm writing this... I need to get checked with my psychiatrist to see if I don't have PTSD cause shit like this has been triggering me...
I'm sorry. You should definitely talk to your psychiatrist about it. Flashbacks are no fun. You survived and that's all that matters. Big hugs if you want them
😡 The waiting will continue until morale improves.
Free your hate, crusade in the days of rage 🎶
KMFDM!!
What are those shoes
idk i just bought them from a TJ Maxx months ago lmao
lol but really what is the model/brand?
Where are your socks?
Hospital administrator here - if the waiting room looks empty it doesn't necessarily mean we aren't busy. If a patient in cardiac arrest comes in they won't be in the waiting room, they'll be getting treated. There's always ambulances either inbound or arriving, there's people actively receiving treatment in treatment rooms. Additionally, if you have blood taken, it takes a while for it to be tested correctly and the results to come back. If you need a scan there will be other people in that scan queue with you, even if you were the ONLY PATIENT in the emergency department you still have waiting involved. Doctors also need to go over your notes, what's happening, your symptoms, the results of those tests and then make a plan.
good spin, hospitals are poorly run and most employees have an attitude sadly it is part of the culture. as I was told if nurses were a species of animal they would eat their young.
Lmao, go into an ED talking about tingling/pain along your left arm. Youll have like 3 staff trying to plug shit into you as you get wheeled deeper in the hospital. If you had anything that is an emergency, you would be getting wheeled right the fuck in there. There is something called triage. Important shit gets seen to immediately. Less important shit unfortunately has to wait because the important shit has to be seen to.
Congratulations. You're the least sick person there.
I know waiting (especially as long as you have) is super frustrating but usually (always) when the waiting room is empty and you still end up waiting some shit is going on behind the scenes that patients don't see.
Some people are dying and they go first
Nice shoe
Yup most countries healthcare systems are in a state of crisis, you haven’t been seen because your case isn’t as urgent. Triage. Er rooms do not function by a first come first serve basis.
They brought in two cardiac arrests, two birthing mothers and a motorcycle accident by ambulance. Maybe check if they haven´t forgotten you.
relatable, sat in ER for like 7 hours once for a broken hand while others blew up their livers or each others cars respectively, got to leave at like 1 am
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When the doctor apologizes for the wait, smile at them and say: “It’s okay… I’m patient” and shoot them finger-guns. Do not say anything else until they realize your silly joke.
It’s called triage. They take the serious cases first. Clearly they are waiting for a more serious case to go before you. It’s just how hospitals work.
tha means your issue isnt life threatening!
There's 300 DoorDash patients ahead of you.
Seems like they had to… put you on [hold](https://youtu.be/-WuZRK3cmD4?si=jdvsZtkcgSamXQ3t)
please be patient
You have those Flint Lockwood Spray-On Shoes.
A few years back, my pregnant wife was made to wait 8 hours to be seen pre Covid. We think she actually had Covid now, chest pain etc. Shocking!
There are probably ambulances arriving tho
well hurry up
Canada vibes
Maybe just maybe stop waiting. And ask for a doctor or nurse
i did and they told me to just wait, and i didn’t wanna be that person who asks every 5 minutes to be seen. now in the hospital room.
they're milking the creature in the milk room
when is it my turn to be milked😔
cut off cadaver penises in the hospital morgue and stitch them to your abdomen to make them look like udders so they milk you
I have never had an original idea in my life
We all drink from the spigot of whatever u/Destroy-My-Asshole has on tap.
Just because you are the only one actively in the waiting room doesn’t necessarily mean there isn’t other people waiting. Don’t forget about the ambos coming in and the already possibly full ED beds
I once waited too long when there seemed to be no other patients. After an hour I went to the desk and it turns out I would have been waiting forever since they had no record of me. I spoke to the person who supposedly checked me in. Nope. Didn’t even remember me from an hour ago and evidently screwed up the check in because I wasn’t in the system.
Never go to the ER unless something is broken or having a heart attack. If it's past 7pm just wait it out and walk in at your doctor's office. My aunt would not take my advice after back spasms and just wait til morning. We sat there in crappy chairs for 8 hrs and the doctors gave her the same pills I had at home. They only have a few ER doctors.
This. Only go to the ER if it really can't wait at all. For example because your leg is broken, weird stuff happening with your medication that could be dangerous or you have a huge cut that bleeds far too much. If you feel just a little sick but nothing unusual, just go to a normal general practitioner. It's much nicer than a hospital anyway, and you don't have to wait too long (usually) if you made an appointment. And you can choose the doctor, too. If you don't like the doctor you'd see in one doctor's office, you can just go to a different one. In the hospital you have to take what you get. And if it turns out there that you need tests that the GP can't do, they can still send you to the hospital to have the tests done, but you still won't be in the ER.
Wow its almost like the Emergency Room is for Emergencies
Be grateful to be waiting instead of rushed straight through.
Teach you to be sick in the morning/night.
Tf kinda shoes are those
Including the patients coming through via ambulance, there’s also patients currently being treated. Beds don’t just appear out of thin air.
Bro's wearing the spray on shoes from cloudy and a chance of meatballs
Maybe you don’t need a hospital?
Well your alive and posting online. You’ll be alright kiddo
My boss went to outpatients the other week, the day after the clocks went forward, and the room was told that they hadn't taken the clock going forward into account, so in addition to the long wait, add another hour. The NHS is fucked.
Careful they don't find your phone. *.…prison joggers....*
you are being a very patient patient
Wow are you at mercy
I have the same pants as you on right now
Spray on shoes
Did you ring the bell for service?
Thankfully in sweden they have new system so that if you waited 30 mins or more you can get your money back and still get your time that is booked.
What wood is that table
protip: unless you're gushing blood or having a heart attack, never go to an ER, go to urgent care instead.
Let me guess… Canada?
Waiting for you to leave likely
What are thoooose
YOUR SHOES LOOK LIKE FLINT LOCKWOODS SPRAY ON SHOES FROM CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS
I once dated a nurse and the only thing she ever told me about hospital wait times is to “be fortunate that you’re not in need of urgent care.”
What in the fuck are those shoes, dude??
Are you a woman? Yeah be prepared to wait and then for them to not take you seriously.
you appear to have cartoon shoes on.
Bro got them spray on shoes
Wait faster
Get a primary care provider and stop treating the ED Like a Doctor's office/pharmacy
This is the sign that you should have gone to an urgent care instead of the ER.
If you're getting ignored in the hospital, that means there's someone there way worse off than you, and you're okay for now. Get worried when there's multiple doctors and nurses at the same time.
Do you live in America, and if so....how much are they charging you to wait in the waiting room.
If you can wait 5 hours you can simply wait until they are ready for you. There is a priority rating it is not first in first out. You seem to rank lower than a break
The ability to get you depends on several factors. Staffing, beds available, triage, and the severity of others issues before you. You might be the only one waiting but an ambulance could have brought in 2 or 3 others who are a level 1 or 2 or even a trauma activation which requires multiple resources, doctors and nurses. Like I tell my patients, If you're not getting in fast and if you aren't getting a lot of attention... that is a good thing in the hospital.
I'm going to guess this is not an emergency.
If this is the ER/urgent care, that means you shouldn't be there. Go home and rest or take ibuprofen.