3. HOSPITAL'S, FRIEND OR FOE EDITORIAL
What do you think about Hospital's? Let me advise you of some problems.
1. My Wife had sharp pains in her chest, we thought it could be a heart attack. I took her to a hospital emergency room. The Doctors could not diagnose the problem. And they sent me to a hospital in another town. When I took her to the other hospital, they diagnosed Gall Stones.
2. Another time a woman took her 3 year old child to the Hospital emergency room with all the skin burned off the palm of his hand. At 3 he did not know that a pan coming out of the oven would be 300 degrees in temprature. While waiting the child was set on top the nurses station counter. After 15 minutes waiting the child hit the small desk bell. The nurse came out and was MAD that the child rang the bell. The mother said that if you are so busy and can not come out to check, I will take my son to another hospital. She did and the child was in with the doctor with in 4 minutes.
4. This was almost beyond belief, 2 women, both appeared to be over 70 years old were brought in wheel chairs to the door. Each was wearing the hospital gown with the back open. A blanket was put on top of them, but not the bottom of their legs, the bottom side of their arms were not covered. Out side the wind was blowing about 25 miles per hour, the outside temprature was 14 below O, they were wheeled out to the van. All of the unprotected skin was subjected to the wind and cold. They should have been loaded in the shelter and protection of the ambulance garbage.
5. An 82 year old lady was bought to the hospital and the temprature was about 0 outside. The driver drove into the ambulance garbage where there was a wheel chair. Going into the reception area. The nurse came and had a fit, saying that the garbage was for the ambulance. He ask, do you have radio contact with the ambulance? Does any ambulance have a patient and coming here? She said no. What is the nurses problem with using the garbage that wasn’t going to be used?
6. A woman had a stroke and was taken to the hospital. The first thing they did was take a Cat scan. The Doctor said that this hospital could not take care of her problem and a hospital in Minneapolis could give her proper treatment. The cost of a helicopter ride was $3,500.00 So they transported her to Minneapolis. The woman's son asked the Doctors how bad her condition was. The Doctor said that if the hospital would have faxed up the cat scan first, his advice would be, not to transport the patient since there was no possibility of survival.
6. Another person went to the hospital emergency room with pains in his left arm pit then his right arm pit, then going across his chest. After a number of tests, the diagnosis was, its either a Heart Attack or Heart Burn, but we don’t know for sure which. 7. A hospital needed more room and built a new hospital. At the main entrance was a roof about 40 feet high but it only protects from rain coming straight down. Wind blown rain and snow blow right under the roof giving almost no protection for people walking in the front door. If you go to the back door where most patients come and go in wheel chairs and others that have a hard time moving around, There is no protection from wind or rain while trying to get into or out of their vehicle. Haven't the designers ever thought about the patients coming and going and provide any protection?
7. One hospital allows no smoking on their property, you must go across the street to smoke. A woman with 2 broken legs and in a wheel chair went out side to smoke about 50 feet away from the front door on a windy day. The hospital staff came out and said that you need to go across the street to smoke. Funny thing is, they have a canopy over the patient drop off entrance. They have room for 6 cars to off load patients while the cars stay running. The cars exhaust can find its way into the front door to enter the building. The volume of carbon dioxide and other exhaust gasses produce more problems than the smoke of one cigarette.
All of the above problems are true. It seems to me that hospitals need to think more about their patients. END.