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Lynne
I was trained as a medic, Medical Assistant, health unit co-ordinator, and unit secretary. So when I started feeling changed in heart, rhythm and fluttery sensations in my chest I told my doctors 18 months ago. They totally blew me off and discounted my experience. 12 Months ago I was feeling even worse so I went back to doctor who found I was throwing PVC's but never bothered to run a strip. Finally he ordered a thallium cardiac stress test. After the test he told me I was only a 5% risk of CAD relax it was just stress take a tranquilizer. Last October I collapsed, EMS was called and most of my waves were depressed so I was rushed to ER. Placed on IV Nitro, nitro paste, oral nitro and placed in a a telemetry room. The next morning I had a cardiac cath done which showed 2 70% blockages LAD and CX so I was transferred to the medical center for a a PTCA with 2 stents. Then it seems as if a Stephen King type character took over.
I am a type 2 diabetic! I was diet controlled; my A1c was 6 and bgl was 126 when some 'idiot' wrote insulin on my chart and some nurse forgot to look at my current levels and actually ask why I was being given insulin with my numbers. When she came near me I asked what the medication was and told her to LEAVE MY ROOM IMMEDIATELY and get the doctor STAT. When the med student arrived I explained insulin shock and a heart that the left ventricle pressure is 115/16 could go into a coma and DIE. So he went back and checked to see that I was correct and he removed the notation from my chart.
I had an uneventful surgery until I was returned to my room. I had not been cleaned up well after surgery so I stuck to sheets by the blood when it was time for a bedpan the nurse I had thrown out sent and orderly in and stood in the door and watched as he dumped the bedpan into my bed. I was forced to lay in blood and urine 6 hours. When I was allowed a short walk they tossed the dirty linens on the floor in my room and they stayed there until I left. On my walk I found dirty used medical equipment lying on the hallway floor like blood contaminated Hep-locks, open vials of IV and injectible medications unattended on a table in the hall. and even worse at 1 point I was told I would be going home but NO one came to disconnect telemetry - so I did it myself. I was offline over 1 hour flatline on the hospitals monitor the unit was in the bathroom with me and no one even checked to see if I was alive or not. I was TOLD I was lucky they saved my life and I should be greatful.
Well in 4 months I collapsed at cardiac rehab was taken to the same ER for another cardiac cath they suggested immediate CABG. By this time I had lost ALL faith in the Medical University so I got more info met with a surgeon at the Medical University but I asked for some assurances that this visit would be a lot safer. I spoke to his nurse yesterday morning she said my room and tests were set up. When I arrived as scheduled yesterday I was having moderate chest pain and dizzyness from stress.
Instead of a direct Admit the letter from the surgeon asked me to wait for him at admitting and he would come down.. When he arrived he was extremely rude, abrupt shoved a letter in my face said he was no longer my doctor, he would not admit me, I told a staffer I was in chest pain they refused to treat me and sent me to another hospital with NO records just the video of my last cardiac cath. I was in ER several hours and had positional hypotension, irregular beats, I was on nitro and nitro paste my entire visit so I was placed in the cardiac observation unit 24 hours. They had to re run all the EKG, blood, x-ray, echogram and everything else. A surgeon came in and reviewed what had happened and what my status is. He told me he believes I can wait 2 weeks, he can do dual OPCAB in his hospital and only make 2 major incisions not 3... but by now I am obviously terrified of the medical fields and doctors like the ones at the Medical University here.
Needless to say the second hospital was quite perplexed when a Medical University Police Vehicle dumps a cardiac patient in
distress at their ER with no notice at all. Gee I wonder if it has to do with the fact I have MEDICAID.
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