Hello everyone,
this week end was a very bad one for my fiance and I. Friday morning, he was having severe abdominal pain. He went to his doctor and was told to go to the ER RIGHT AWAY because it was probably a appendicitis. At 10AM I leave work to go to the ER with him. We had to wait to see the doctor. They did an echography, they did not see the appendix so after they did a scan. My fiance was going crazy with the pain so they gave him a shot of morphine. After the scan, his face was red, his pulse was really quick, the pain was huge and the fever was higher. They place him in a room while we were waiting for the results. They told us the results at around 9PM!!!!!! They did the surgery at 3AM friday night!!!! He had to stay longer at the hospital because there was a light perforation of his appendix so some bacteria went into his blood. I am sure that if they would have make the surgery earlier, it would have been ok. The health care system here is crazy. The surgeon was too busy because there was a lot of emergency cases of surgeries that night. Now my fiance is ok, I will bring him home tonight he has to take antibiotics for the bacteria.
Is it the same thing in the USA? Do you guys have to wait so many hours when there is an emergency?
this week end was a very bad one for my fiance and I. Friday morning, he was having severe abdominal pain. He went to his doctor and was told to go to the ER RIGHT AWAY because it was probably a appendicitis. At 10AM I leave work to go to the ER with him. We had to wait to see the doctor. They did an echography, they did not see the appendix so after they did a scan. My fiance was going crazy with the pain so they gave him a shot of morphine. After the scan, his face was red, his pulse was really quick, the pain was huge and the fever was higher. They place him in a room while we were waiting for the results. They told us the results at around 9PM!!!!!! They did the surgery at 3AM friday night!!!! He had to stay longer at the hospital because there was a light perforation of his appendix so some bacteria went into his blood. I am sure that if they would have make the surgery earlier, it would have been ok. The health care system here is crazy. The surgeon was too busy because there was a lot of emergency cases of surgeries that night. Now my fiance is ok, I will bring him home tonight he has to take antibiotics for the bacteria.
Is it the same thing in the USA? Do you guys have to wait so many hours when there is an emergency?