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Christine Anderson -
7 years ago
Last night I was at a club with two friends. One had only a couple of beers (we had just arrived) and he became unable to stand. We sat with him, and gave him water, and while he was somewhat responsive, he was not improving so we called ambulance. The paramedics were disinterested and tried to say he was drunk and we needed to take him home. We insisted that they do their jobs and take him to the hospital. After much argument, they finally did. After arriving at the hospital (where the emergency room was completely empty, with no one else to treat) our friend was placed in a wheelchair and left in a hallway. They would not give us information and treated us with complete disdain. When we exited the hospital, we were LOCKED OUT, and ringing the bell was no use. Assuming that the front door would be accessible as it is a hospital, we walked around to the front of the building. Nope, that was locked too. We returned to the emergency room and went in through the ambulance bay. They let us in when we rang that bell, joking "oh, so you are from the ambulance?" and I said "No, but you locked us out of your hospital, something that should be accessible and with our friend inside." We returned to the waiting room. I needed to use the rest room, just to discover that they had locked us in the waiting room. Shortly after, they returned our friend and all but shoved us out of the hospital. I have never seen such behavior from medical staff in my life. His blood pressure had dropped, and as we had suspected, he simply needed a saline drip. This could have been done in the ambulance. Instead they let him go for couple hours without treatment, and behaved as if it was a burden for them to have to do their jobs. I have never been so disgusted by paramedics or doctors in my life. Horrible experience.