The "Emergency" Room
Last night I went to the emergency room at the hospital because a friend was very sick. He felt very weak and dizzy and he was about to pass out. The closest hospital to us is the Seton Southwest Hospital and so we went there so that we could get him looked at as soon as possible.
When we got there, I signed him in and despite the fact that there was nobody else in the waiting room, we sat there waiting for about half an hour.
I
asked him if he wanted to go to the hospital downtown, since I know
that they attend to a patient quickly but he refused, saying that it was
almost his turn anyway. Ten more minutes passed and then they finally
called him in.
The nurse was the most rude person I've ever met. She practically manhandled him and then spent five minutes asking us questions - which I could have answered by myself but she insisted that he had to be present. I was extremely angry by then. I'm already not a patient person at all and lose my temper quickly, but this time it was worse but I had to calm myself down because I was afraid that if I was rude to the nurse, she would purposely take much longer than they've already had.
In the end, we ended up spending the night at the hospital because he fainted and threw up blood all over the floor and had a fever. Right now he's still in the hospital and I am sadly at school.
I just hope the nurses are treating him all right.
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