GOP Lawmaker Says Emergency Rooms Should Be Able To Turn People Away

[Doreen]

37. I remember years ago I kept going to the ER because I kept getting sick and

they would send me to the doctor the next day the doctor took my pulse, temperature, checked my throat and gave me some stupid pill for what I do not know. I ended back up in the emergency room once again. finally a doctor that was on shift ordered some actual tests and found that I had a serious but very underline infection from my bladder. I would not had been to the emergency room so many times if in the beginning either they or my doctor had done what they should have in the first place. The wonders of being on government health care. I go to doctors and then the emergency room they tell me nothing is wrong send me away and finally at some point they find out I was really sick.

I went through a period when my abdomen was hurting a lot and to the point where it doubled me over. I kept going to the doctor and emergency room to no avail. One day my husband and friend were coming back from the beach and I got extremely ill. I was sweating, shaking, crying in pain, throwing up, and hurt all over. Once again I was taken to the emergency room and once again another doctor asked for tests including a pregnancy test which no one had ever done. I was pregnant and they scheduled an exploratory surgery for me the next day. I had a tubal pregnancy that was ready to burst at any moment. If the assholes before had taken me seriously and did the tests they should have done I would not have come that close to dying and I would not have to be in the emergency room so much.

I think that because of people who go in for stupid things ( like throwing up a Starbucks ) is one of the reasons they do not take even the seriously ill seriously.

What this stupid so called nurse needs to understand is that some of these people who she is complaining about have NO insurance and this is the ONLY way they can get health care. So little miss nurse, you do as much as you can to make it so everyone can afford health care and I will bet you will not have near as many people bothering you.