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1. "I was a patient. There was an older antheral successful the furniture adjacent to me, waiting to beryllium transferred to a nursing home. The nursing unit treated him arsenic though helium were a hard diligent when, successful reality, helium was conscionable excessively frail to bash things for himself. One day, the caregiver refused to assistance him spell to the bathroom, saying helium was conscionable being lazy. I could not help, arsenic I was bedridden myself astatine the time. He took a autumn and deed his caput connected the floor. The antheral caregiver conscionable threw him backmost onto the bed. His household arrived, and I heard them asking the pistillate caregiver who refused to assistance him, and wherefore their begetter was truthful groggy. The caregiver lied, saying thing had happened, and helium was fine. I called the man's girl implicit to my furniture and told her the full story. Needless to say, sh*t deed the fan."
2. "I was sitting successful a Thai exigency country waiting country a fewer years back, and a feline calmly sat down adjacent to me, holding his manus to his face. The pistillate helium was with went up to the queue, filled retired the paperwork, and truthful on. I politely said hullo successful breached Thai, and helium said hullo back; we past paid nary much attraction to each other. She reached the beforehand of the line, and the triage caregiver rushed implicit to her immediately, speaking urgently and rapidly. He responded calmly, stood up, and moved his hand, showing her his eye. Which was successful his hand. Dangling from the socket connected a agelong thing. He and the pistillate helium was with were treating the full concern similar a insignificant inconvenience."
3. "I was successful the infirmary for an corruption successful the bones of my foot. I instrumentality medicine for a bosom information and diabetes. The caregiver came successful 1 evening to springiness maine my medication. She brings maine strange-looking pills. I inquire her what they are, and she tells maine 2 medications I've ne'er heard of. I archer her she mightiness person mixed up my medicine with idiosyncratic else's — she says no, she's sure, instrumentality the pills. But I refuse. I inquire for the caput caregiver for the level oregon a doctor. The caput caregiver comes in, and I inquire her what medicine I'm expected to beryllium receiving. She checks my chart, confirms what I'm expected to beryllium taking. I inquire her to inquire the archetypal caregiver what medicine she has successful her hand. The nurses permission the room, and a 3rd caregiver returns with the close pills. The caput caregiver returns and informs maine that the archetypal caregiver volition nary longer beryllium liable for my care."
"The adjacent day, the caregiver coordinator comes successful with a integer audio recorder and notepad to spell implicit each the details of what happened the nighttime before. From what I learned later, this wasn't the archetypal incidental involving this caregiver administering the incorrect medications. She had done it to a mates of different patients, and I heard she had been suspended pending an investigation. I don't cognize what happened due to the fact that cipher ever contacted maine aft that."
4. "I was a diligent successful A&E (accident and emergency), and a young feline came successful drunk arsenic hell, and helium had ripped his scrotum unfastened trying to leap a bollard. Well, erstwhile helium saw the needle the caregiver had to usage to numb his penis, helium was not having it. Cue what was astir similar a fearfulness mentation of a Scooby-Doo pursuit scene, with the feline moving successful and retired of rooms sans pants portion getting chased by a clump of information and nurses. They yet caught him, and helium promptly passed out, truthful they continued his attraction portion helium was snoring away. I was conscionable sitting successful my infirmary furniture trying not to laughter excessively hard and popular my stitches portion messaging my mom, 'You are NOT gonna judge what I conscionable watched.'"
5. "When I was waiting connected quality of a person who'd been successful an accident, I saw a feline successful his aboriginal twenties travel successful with his ma due to the fact that he'd fallen disconnected his extortion and dislocated his shoulder. After astir an hr of waiting, his ma conscionable says, 'F*ck it! This is taking excessively long!' and legit began to Google however to reset a shoulder. After astir 5 minutes of research, she removed her belt, folded it up, and instructed him to wound down connected it. She past proceeded to violently shove her son's enarthrosis backmost into the socket portion helium people screamed successful agony. Security and nurses rushed implicit to spot what the commotion was, and they needed to propulsion her disconnected of him. Security sat her down, and the nurses took the mediocre kid and got him treated."
6. "The past clip I was astatine the hospital, I was visiting my grandma, who was sharing a country with different older patient. My grandma was eating an ovum crockery sandwich and abruptly started vomiting it up everywhere. While I was trying to assistance her, the older pistillate adjacent to america began violently pooping her pants and yelling, 'I’m shitting my pants!' Earlier that day, I had heard her accidental she hadn't pooped successful 5 days. The odor successful determination was perfectly vile. I was besides astir 20 weeks large and started to propulsion up. I couldn’t get retired of determination accelerated enough."
7. "At 8 years old, I was successful a car wreck involving much than 25 cars and galore ambulances. For immoderate reason, my ma and member were enactment into 1 ambulance, and I was enactment into a antithetic one. I conscionable did what the adults successful complaint told maine to do. We ended up astatine antithetic hospitals. I could walk, truthful they enactment maine connected a seat to wait, but forgot astir me. While waiting, they wheeled successful a gurney, and respective radical yelled orders. Suddenly, everyone near successful a antithetic direction. I was unsocial connected a seat successful a hallway with a gurney, and I saw humor commencement to leak connected the floor. Then idiosyncratic ran backmost to get the gurney, and the diligent had died by then. They pulled the expanse implicit the look and near it there, with eight-year-old maine sitting there, wondering what I should do."
"I yet needed to pee, truthful I went looking for a bathroom. I asked a caregiver for a bathroom, and she yelled, 'How did you get successful here?' I told her the ambulance feline told maine to hold connected the bench. She took maine to a bath and got maine immoderate food. I had immoderate cuts, but thing bad. She had maine hold successful a regular waiting room.
After an hour, I heard idiosyncratic astatine the antagonistic saying my parents' names. The pistillate astatine the table said, "Not astatine this hospital. Other patients went to [X] hospital.' So I recovered my grandmother, and she drove maine to the different hospital, and I was reunited with my household again. It had been astir 10 hours."
8. "I was told the babe I was large with had nary heartbeat from listening with the stethoscope, and due to the fact that I was admitted done exigency owed to dense bleeding (not the maternity ward), they 'couldn’t' get a sonographer to spot maine for 2 much days to confirm. The caregiver past near my hubby and maine successful a country unsocial for 4 hours without adjacent checking connected us, contempt the information that I was bleeding heavy and begging them for help. Her words were, 'This happens each the time, you’ll person different one.' The instrumentality was located upstairs and was being utilized by different women who had been admitted done the maternity ward. That babe turns 8 now. It's truthful chaotic however we thought for a time determination that he’d died, and again during birth. Needless to say, hospitals aren’t my favourite place."
9. "I was successful the infirmary for a fewer days with what turned retired to beryllium nothing, but 1 nighttime astir 3 a.m., they brought a caller diligent into my room. As they were getting him into the bed, helium started having a full-voice speech astir however helium felt good and being successful the infirmary was silly. In a precise polite, calm, but steadfast voice. He started saying that helium didn’t request to beryllium determination and was going home, getting progressively louder and angrier. I could archer from the dependable helium was an older gentleman, and it turned retired helium had dementia."
"The weird portion was sitting determination successful the acheronian arsenic a larger and larger radical of doctors, nurses, and orderlies came to effort and get him to calm down. When that didn’t work, different pistillate who was intelligibly reasonably precocious up the authorization ladder started talking successful a slow, loud, and wide voice, telling the assemblage (not the diligent anymore) that they were going to restrain and sedate hIm.
She narrated each step, portion helium shouted and threatened. Clearly, she was addressing aboriginal lawyers and investigators. The full process took much than fractional an hour, portion orderlies held him (which was antithetic from restraining him). It ended with thing similar 'we are injecting him to sedate him,' followed by a precise speedy fade-out earlier they took him retired of the room.
It was some bittersweet and scary to spot (or, rather, hear) idiosyncratic who had intelligibly been a reasonably intelligent, self-assured, and autarkic idiosyncratic going down that road. Not knowing what was happening, and getting insulted and past outraged by what helium perceived arsenic his mistreatment and nonaccomplishment of autonomy. It gave maine a consciousness of what hellhole it indispensable beryllium caring for a loved 1 with Alzheimer’s disease."
10. "I was successful the exigency waiting country with my mom. I was the 1 with an exigency and was drowsy the full time, but I retrieve that astatine immoderate point, a antheral was wheeled into the country portion making pharynx noises (think The Grudge). My ma took my look successful her hands and told me, precise calmly and without a hint of panic successful her voice, to look done the model and archer her what that weird histrion was, due to the fact that she'd ne'er seen 1 similar that (she decidedly had). I had nary thought what was going on, truthful I kept staring astatine that tree, and past it was my turn, truthful we near the waiting room. Days later, she told maine that the antheral who was wheeled into the country had 1 of his legs hanging connected for beloved beingness and that determination was humor everyplace connected his pants, but besides connected his clothes. He was drunk, truthful helium was astir apt successful a fight. I anticipation he's good now."
11. "My (now late) parent and I were successful triage successful the hospital, and had to hold successful the hallway to beryllium seen. We were seated adjacent to a antheral who looked similar Bill Fagerbakke (an histrion who was successful the movie The Stand, and is the dependable histrion for Patrick successful SpongeBob SquarePants). The antheral appeared to beryllium astir 40, and his parents were with him. Everything was good and dandy, I was twiddling my thumbs, looking down, until I heard a caregiver speaking with the man. Nurse: 'What did you devour for meal today?' Man: 'A gallon of lighter fluid and 2 bricks.' Nurse: 'Okay, and what is your name?' Man: 'Bob Marley, MOFO.' Nurse: 'Okay, great. I’ll beryllium backmost successful a fewer minutes.'"
"I realized I was sitting adjacent to idiosyncratic who apt had schizophrenia oregon immoderate benignant of akin disorder. It was chaotic and fascinating however calm and diligent the caregiver was with him.
A fewer minutes aft that, a pistillate was being strapped to a furniture arsenic she was having a intelligence break. My ma and I genuinely thought we were accidentally successful a psych ward. For years after, 'Bob Marley, MOFO' was our small wrong joke."
12. "I utilized to beryllium a predominant patient, truthful I person seen immoderate stuff. There was a schizophrenic pistillate successful the ward for respective weeks, screaming her caput disconnected astir everything, including the nurses trying to marque her deterioration a pad. Another time, I was walking astir the ward and saw the infinitesimal a pistillate passed away, surrounded by her family. They were spilling retired of the country and into the ward, and were wheeled retired soon after. The astir harrowing happening I saw was successful the ER. A antheral wheeled successful his wife, who looked similar she was passing away, and mildly slapped her to effort to support her awake. Seeing the horror, shock, and axenic heartbreak connected his look is conscionable stuck successful my memory."
13. "I was successful the ER, and portion successful a bed, determination was different pistillate adjacent to maine who was determination to effort and get symptom meds similar morphine oregon thing similar. She would rotation astir successful agony erstwhile a caregiver oregon doc was successful the room, but arsenic soon arsenic they left, she’d beryllium snacking oregon laughing astatine the TV oregon calling someone. A fewer hours in, she gets a telephone call, and her temper starts to change. She says her girl was stabbed, and she needs to go. I knew she was a idiosyncratic addicted to something, but her fearfulness and panic sounded very, precise real. She started calling for a caregiver to travel instrumentality her IV retired due to the fact that she had to permission ASAP to spell to her daughter. She was crying and ripping retired her IV by herself. It was a mess."
"The caregiver who is discharging her asks her if her girl would beryllium taken to that hospital, and the pistillate says her telephone is dead, truthful she doesn’t know. She’s conscionable going to spell to wherever she past heard from her. I inactive deliberation astir her and wonderment if her girl was good (or real, even)."
14. "A antheral successful the ER waiting country was conscionable sitting determination with an arrow sticking retired of some sides of his head. I thought it was a Halloween prop, but it wasn't. Listening to the neurosurgeons looking astatine the man's encephalon scans and trying to fig retired however the heck they were going to region it was some fascinating and a spot funny. They had ne'er seen this earlier and were benignant of incredulous. In lawsuit you're wondering, they removed it successful the operating room, and the antheral walked retired of the infirmary a fewer days later."
15. "I was determination successful the lobby, waiting for an assignment oregon something. The infirmary wasn't precise busy, and the wide code of the time was unremarkable and forgettable. It was conscionable different time astatine the hospital, really. But past I saw movement. I turned my caput to spot a captive successful shackles, with humor each implicit his agleam orangish situation uniform, looking wild-eyed and disheveled. I tin inactive perceive the metallic rattle of the chains that restrained him. He wasn't limping, showing immoderate signs of pain, oregon responding to stares. He was conscionable cold, astir expressionless, and robotic."
"Two officers connected either broadside of him escorted him done the corridor. And portion prisoners are quality beings too, helium was not precisely a friendly-looking individual. But tin you blasted him? This brushwood besides lasted astir 30 seconds, but his beingness was specified a jarring opposition to each the ordinary, invisible goings-on that blended into the background.
As overmuch arsenic I tin figure, determination indispensable person been a situation nearby, and that captive astir apt got into an altercation that was atrocious capable that it required attraction astatine a better-equipped facility."
16. "My gramps was successful the infirmary and went into cardiac arrest. As the impermanent nursing unit near his country laughing that they 'cracked Mr. Smith's ribs and worked him implicit existent good,' small did they cognize my grandfather's niece, who was astatine the clip a DA with Harris County, heard everything. There were HIPAA violations, elder abuse, and more. She was achromatic hot. All the nurses were fired immediately, and the infirmary was nether probe for elder maltreatment and its accreditation."
17. "I was successful the waiting country waiting to beryllium seen (for what turned retired to beryllium gallstones — not the astir amusive I’ve ever had) erstwhile a radical of young dudes came in. One guy’s look and knuckles were each covered successful blood, and his garment was each ripped up, evidently having been successful a fight. The triage caregiver asked what happened, and the guy’s person said, 'He fell down the stairs.' The triage caregiver was like, 'Ok, that intelligibly didn’t happen. I request you to archer maine precisely what happened truthful we tin triage and dainty you properly. The feline insists helium fell down the stairs. Meanwhile, 1 of the different mates has picked a combat with information for immoderate reason, truthful the full radical gets up and starts trying to combat the information guard. So different information defender shows up, and the full group, including the dude who 'fell down the stairs,' each get kicked out."
"MEANWHILE, different caregiver is getting screamed astatine by a pistillate whose lad seemingly came to the infirmary successful an ambulance, but determination was nary grounds of her lad being there.
There was immoderate different chaotic stuff, but I get the feeling that was conscionable a regular Saturday night."
18. "My surgeon virtually yelled astatine maine close aft I got retired of the betterment country aft surgery. He told maine I wasted his clip and resources, nothing's incorrect with me, and my favorite, 'you truly request to see seeing a therapist astir your issue.' I present person confirmed endometriosis and suspected adenomyosis. He didn't instrumentality immoderate biopsies, adjacent though that was the full constituent of my laparoscopy, didn't look down my organs, which is besides the point, and burned insubstantial without investigating it. I realized that helium had lone scheduled my country to beryllium maine wrong. He dismissed maine fully, and I kept pushing. He yet agreed, but said, 'I cognize you don't person endometriosis' portion scheduling. I reported him."
19. "They were doing an intake connected immoderate affluent kid erstwhile it was explained to him that helium would beryllium staying there, and they were getting acceptable to instrumentality him to the unit. I was capable to spot the radical successful a small double-glazed chicken-wire model and could admit the speech they were having. The kid kicked a small, dense array astatine some of his parents and ran retired of the small room, trying to escape. The unit blocked him from the stairs, and helium parkoured implicit the antagonistic into the unit, stopped successful the mediate of the hallway with the rooms, looked around, and erstwhile the different kids laughed astatine him/cheered and clapped, helium enactment his hands successful his pockets and sat connected the level successful the country and pouted."
20. "One time, I had taken the elevator down from an assignment astatine 1 of the hospital's smaller buildings, my young children successful tow. When the elevator reached the bottommost floor, I realized instantly that determination was a precise purple-looking older antheral lying betwixt america and the exit, surrounded by aesculapian professionals performing CPR connected him. I closed the elevator doorway and rode backmost up earlier the kids noticed anything, and we hung retired successful the waiting country until the ambulance had pulled away. I got my archetypal CPR certification a fewer weeks later."
21. "There was this miss who was trying to get admitted to the intelligence wellness unit. It turned retired her fellow was a patient. She didn't get admitted and wasn't blessed astir it, but she left. The adjacent happening we know, there's a car doing donuts successful the parking batch conscionable extracurricular of the ER entrance. She was throwing things retired the model and screaming, 'Am I 'crazy' capable now?' She ends up driving astir to the different broadside of the infirmary and driving close done immoderate sliding solid doors. She's fortunate she didn't termination someone, different 10 feet and she would person crashed implicit a railing and into the cafeteria below, wherever unit was napping connected a couch. She decidedly got carted away, but not to wherever she wanted to go."
22. "I was successful the ER for a breached ankle years ago. I abruptly got parked successful a corner, and the unit told maine a clump of patients from a wide casualty lawsuit were coming successful (a superior aggregate conveyance accident). In existent Canadian fashion, they asked if I was good to wait. I said, 'Yeah, I'm good.' I got an crystal battalion and a precocious symptom tolerance. They past asked me, 'Are you squeamish?' 'Uh, not usually?' 'Cool due to the fact that things are astir to get truly messy, bask the unrecorded entertainment.' I saw a clump of truly messed-up-looking folks wheeled successful connected gurneys. One feline was SCREAMING bloody murder, and just enough, 1 limb was damn adjacent torn close disconnected his body. Dude was perfectly pouring humor portion 2 paramedics tried to clasp it successful place, and lad did helium get fashionable fast."
"I couldn't truly spot what was going on, but they had him calmed down beauteous accelerated with thing and rapidly stabilized him. ER crews are a peculiar benignant of talent, and I respect the heck retired of them."
23. "There was an abandoned 95-year-old dementia diligent successful the furniture adjacent to mine. She kept calling out, 'Hello? Hello?' and determination was cipher with her. I was excessively sick to get retired of my bed, but I kept talking to her, adjacent though she couldn't understand, until immoderate ambulance drivers came and took her distant to dice successful a facility."
24. "When I was a kid, my ma utilized to instrumentality maine to her occupation arsenic an ER caregiver due to the fact that she had to, and I would slumber successful the interruption country for nurses. One day, connected our mode home, she mildly picked maine up arsenic we were walking down the hallway, and I looked astatine the level and went, 'What’s that?' And she calmly goes 'brains.' Apparently, determination was a feline who changeable his brains retired who was rushed into the ER connected our mode out, and they were inactive spilling retired connected his mode in."
25. "The infirmary I spell to is wherever the constabulary bring radical who are successful custody, truthful it’s not uncommon for a fewer officers astatine a clip to travel idiosyncratic successful cuffs who looks similar they’ve been done a lot. Once determination was a young miss who kicked a caregiver successful her stomach. The scarier lawsuit was erstwhile a precise ample antheral broke escaped (still cuffed) and, portion sprinting down the hallway, assemblage checked each idiosyncratic successful his mode into the walls, and everyone was conscionable shouting that they didn’t cognize what to do. I was inactive connected a hallway bed, and I could consciousness the aerial unreserved erstwhile helium passed me. It was kinda wild."
26. "I fell disconnected my motorcycle and fractured some bones successful my wrist portion astatine camp. In the waiting room, determination was a young antheral and woman, some successful Wendy’s uniforms. The young antheral was holding a precise bloody towel astir his hand, and she was holding a container afloat of crystal and thing bloody. I kid you not, his enactment was, 'So, aft they reattach my finger, bash you wanna drawback a wound to eat?' Then a clump of cops travel in, escorting a antheral successful a afloat situation jumpsuit with the limb and limb cuffs, bleeding profusely from his head. It was rather the experience."
27. "When I was 16, I spent implicit a week successful the infirmary recovering from (relatively) insignificant surgery. Somewhere down the hallway was a young girl, I’m guessing astir my age, who astatine nighttime would shriek and outcry successful symptom from her (I believe) crab treatments. She would besides sob that she wanted to spell home. My bosom broke for her, and looking back, I benignant of privation I had ventured down the hallway to possibly effort and console (or astatine slightest distract) her. I inactive deliberation astir those screams and sobs sometimes. It makes maine consciousness grateful for my ain health, but chiefly I consciousness atrocious for those (especially the young ones) who person to spell done specified trauma."
28. "I got taken to A&E aft a windshear threw maine disconnected my motorbike. I was stuck successful 1 of those cervix brace boxes for hours portion waiting for a full-body X-ray, truthful I could lone look astatine the ceiling. The full time, a saccharine older woman was chatting with maine from what I assumed was the cubicle other mine, and yet she asked her attending doc if she could travel implicit to me. The feline said, 'Yeah,' truthful I heard her shuffle implicit and yet marque it to my constricted show range. A bully chunk of her caput was caved in, and it took each that I had near successful the vessel not to freak retired portion strapped to a gurney, and she was conscionable chatting distant arsenic if thing was wrong."
29. "My dada was admitted to the infirmary for a stroke. He was connected a ward with different older radical who could hardly speech oregon move. When the meals arrived, they were placed connected the furniture tray and near for the patients to provender themselves. These radical couldn’t bash it. One older antheral was trying truthful hard to enactment the spoon successful his mouth, but it was going everyplace but his mouth. If the nutrient wasn’t eaten wrong 20 minutes, it was collected, and the patients were near to starve. I was 15 astatine the time. Young maine could person helped them, but the ward was afloat of astir 12 of these men. I could person complained, but I was not confident. My dada had different changeable erstwhile I was 18 and unluckily passed away."
30. And, "When I was successful my aboriginal twenties, I had a nasty staph corruption I caught astatine work. Eventually, I ended up having country due to the fact that I was this adjacent to losing portion of my ankle tendon owed to respective pockets being close connected it, and the doc fundamentally rushed maine into country unexpectedly. Before each of this, though, the Air Force successful its infinite contented decided they couldn't dainty maine connected basal and would conscionable nonstop maine to the ER downtown, nevertheless galore times it would instrumentality to person them springiness maine antibiotics to wide it up. One day, I'm successful determination waiting to beryllium seen erstwhile this older, farmer-looking feline walks close up to the beforehand table holding a tiny Yeti-style cup. The caregiver said, 'Hey. Brought your luncheon successful today?' and the antheral responded, 'Nope, conscionable my fingers.' He past held up his different hand, which helium had antecedently tucked distant successful his coat, wrapped successful bloody rags. 'The damn instrumentality got maine again.'"
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