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Mr. Jones Offline
#1 Posted: Tue, May 16 2023, 9:42 PM EST
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What the f##k is going on back there?

Kids screaming, old guys groaning, old ladies coughing and passing nasty gas, pissed off people everywhere...like 75++ hurtins in this dump...
Just expanded the ER by 40% and this bull**** goes down the night I gotta go down there?

This is the kind wait you'd expect if two greyhound buses flipped over 5 miles away...not a freaking tuesday night..
Got here at 4:45 pm...
It's 10:45 pm


This is total bullcrap!!
Mr. Jones Offline
#2 Posted: Wed, May 17 2023, 7:29 AM EST
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Acute diverticulitis.

In there 10 freakin hours.

Got home at 2:45 am.

Exhausted.
JGKAMIN Offline
#3 Posted: Wed, May 17 2023, 7:48 AM EST
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You should be getting good health care up there where you’re at Jonesy. Try falling out in front of an urgent care facility and them saying there’s nothing they could do for you, asking for them to run vitals and giving any medical advise…sorry, I suggest you go to an ER. Then spending 12+ hours in an ER while some lady miscarries in the waiting room bathroom and others are falling out while waiting, only to then leave because it you couldn’t wait any longer. I swore next time we’d drive the 3 hours each way to PA to get to our old hospital instead of spending 1/2 in a shythole ER while they cater to the junkies overdosing and/or criminals being brought in by the popo nonstop and getting preferential treatment.
ZRX1200 Offline
#4 Posted: Wed, May 17 2023, 12:14 PM EST
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One of our local hospitals I have to go to occasionally has used their COVID federal lottery dollars to add a new wing (which there’s neither the staff nor population for……anyways this new construction deleted the delivery/vendor parking completely and we can’t use valet with company rigs. So I gotta park two buildings over then go through their ER to get to the main hospital building. EVERY TIME I go through there’s junkies pretending to be in pain, a kid with an injured extremity being ignored, and an old person having a hard time. And the junkies are always acting like pricks.

About 4 months ago my daughter had a dizzy/fainting spell, never happened before, so her mom took her to the hospital (same on btw). She waited 4 hours before a nurse came OUT TO the waiting room and took her vitals, gave her a eco cardio test and had her pee in a cup in the restrooms. Her mom left after hour 5 no results. They never called. She called a week later to find out our daughter wasn’t on drugs, doesn’t have a heart issue the BS non-invasive test could tell and they don’t know anything. 3 weeks later we got a bill, charged us for the lab work (expected) and a LEVEL 2 visit. WTF is level 1??!!! Best part is mom works at the hospital. My daughter has the hospitals insurance……and we got charged $700 for that level 2 care.
Mr. Jones Offline
#5 Posted: Wed, May 17 2023, 12:53 PM EST
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Thanks jgkamin and Z....

Good stories....LancSter General just finished a 2-3 yr ER UPGRADE 30-35? more rooms added?...GOT BETTER SERVICE when it was smaller!!

My neck hurts like a bitch from trying to rest- sleep in a chair..they need recliners in there or chairs with headrests...

This Hispanic junkie was in there from 9 pm till I left curled up in a wheel chair...yelling EYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEE, POPPEEEEEE, AND CARUMBAA every 5 seconds in that order for 5+ hours...
It was comical...then about every 20 minutes he'd yell " somebody help me...help me please..."
Guy was a real pain in the ass!!!
Mr. Jones Offline
#6 Posted: Wed, May 17 2023, 12:54 PM EST
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The only thing good about getting old...and being below the poverty line..is totally free health care...and I mean $$zero cost..
Mr. Jones Offline
#7 Posted: Wed, May 17 2023, 1:03 PM EST
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Augmentin horse polls 3x a day 10 days
JGKAMIN Offline
#8 Posted: Wed, May 17 2023, 1:06 PM EST
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ZRX1200 wrote:

About 4 months ago my daughter had a dizzy/fainting spell, never happened before, so her mom took her to the hospital (same on btw). She waited 4 hours before a nurse came OUT TO the waiting room and took her vitals, gave her a eco cardio test and had her pee in a cup in the restrooms. Her mom left after hour 5 no results. They never called. She called a week later to find out our daughter wasn’t on drugs, doesn’t have a heart issue the BS non-invasive test could tell and they don’t know anything. 3 weeks later we got a bill, charged us for the lab work (expected) and a LEVEL 2 visit. WTF is level 1??!!! Best part is mom works at the hospital. My daughter has the hospitals insurance……and we got charged $700 for that level 2 care.

We left after 12 hours of waiting and not being attended to, and I couldn’t wait to see what the bill would reflect. As expected, it was a total work of fiction and a was pumped up with tons of garbage. No wonder our health care and insurance is perceived as it is, total garbage! Also taught me the value of very good healthcare that I believe we had for many years prior to moving.
rfenst Offline
#9 Posted: Wed, May 17 2023, 1:57 PM EST
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ZRX1200 wrote:
One of our local hospitals I have to go to occasionally has used their COVID federal lottery dollars to add a new wing (which there’s neither the staff nor population for……anyways this new construction deleted the delivery/vendor parking completely and we can’t use valet with company rigs. So I gotta park two buildings over then go through their ER to get to the main hospital building. EVERY TIME I go through there’s junkies pretending to be in pain, a kid with an injured extremity being ignored, and an old person having a hard time. And the junkies are always acting like pricks.

About 4 months ago my daughter had a dizzy/fainting spell, never happened before, so her mom took her to the hospital (same on btw). She waited 4 hours before a nurse came OUT TO the waiting room and took her vitals, gave her a eco cardio test and had her pee in a cup in the restrooms. Her mom left after hour 5 no results. They never called. She called a week later to find out our daughter wasn’t on drugs, doesn’t have a heart issue the BS non-invasive test could tell and they don’t know anything. 3 weeks later we got a bill, charged us for the lab work (expected) and a LEVEL 2 visit. WTF is level 1??!!! Best part is mom works at the hospital. My daughter has the hospitals insurance……and we got charged $700 for that level 2 care.

Seems like you got off easy on that bill.
rfenst Offline
#10 Posted: Wed, May 17 2023, 1:59 PM EST
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Mr. Jones wrote:
Augmentin horse polls 3x a day 10 days

No gastro follow-up?
Hope you feel better soon!
rfenst Offline
#11 Posted: Wed, May 17 2023, 2:01 PM EST
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JGKAMIN wrote:
We left after 12 hours of waiting and not being attended to, and I couldn’t wait to see what the bill would reflect. As expected, it was a total work of fiction and a was pumped up with tons of garbage. No wonder our health care and insurance is perceived as it is, total garbage! Also taught me the value of very good healthcare that I believe we had for many years prior to moving.

There are companies you can hire which negotiate medical bills to cut-out all the fluff. They charge a % of what they save you. Very effective.
JGKAMIN Offline
#12 Posted: Wed, May 17 2023, 4:09 PM EST
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rfenst wrote:
There are companies you can hire which negotiate medical bills to cut-out all the fluff. They charge a % of what they save you. Very effective.

My insurance takes care of most of it, but the whole process is a joke.
ZRX1200 Offline
#13 Posted: Wed, May 17 2023, 6:21 PM EST
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Yeah….we’ll on the bill it was $4.2k but they “negotiated” that down.

It’s like buying Gurkhas here. LOOK!!! MSRP IS $5 million each and just today they can be yours for $20 ea!

And the “level 2” visit was hilarious, when my ex wife told me that I said for the love of GOD ask them what that means, and what a level 1 and 3 visit are. An ER really should be triaging emergencies not administering primary care for lazy people (I’m looking at you Medicaid patients) or people with non-emergencies. Same hospital used to call us after hours for non-emergency items. I told an RN once it would be cheaper for us to have a loaner closet there and literally GIVE the items away. She tells me “well why don’t you do that then?”

If we did what hospitals get away with Id be on a gravy train with biscuit wheels…..
JGKAMIN Offline
#14 Posted: Wed, May 17 2023, 7:24 PM EST
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The provider and insurance companies agree it’s a $250 procedure so after your copay the rest will be covered through insurance, but they’ll still send a $2000 invoice.
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