Best health care system in the world my fuckin ass!

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7. I've got one for you

An elderly friend fell while getting out of bed in the middle of the night in her assisted living facility. She had broken her hip such that her leg was just laying on the bed - it was no longer in the socket. The emergency room admitted her but did not give her any pain meds. They just padded the rails on her bed so she would not hurt herself thrashing around.

Her son finally got there about 9 in the morning and asked that a doctor see her and give her pain meds. He was told the hospitalist would be there as he made rounds. Thank god he was a person who is not averse to making noise - loud noise!
They finally got her some pain medication.

The rest of the story gets even worse but suffice it to say that they chose to keep her medicated into unconsciousness rather than do surgery to ease the pain. They transported her to a nursing home in that state where the resident physician said they could not let her suffer like that - it was better to risk surgery on her.
She sailed through the surgery and the pain was relieved - after 2 months of suffering.