Guest guest Posted February 23, 2006 Report Share Posted February 23, 2006 Do the ERs treat you quickly if you tell them you have diabetes the way they do if a man comes and says he has chest pain or do they leave you waiting the normal 5 doggone hours? JUDITH -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.0.0/267 - Release Date: 2/22/06 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 No experience. But I would guess that it depends on many factors... how busy it is and what symptoms you are presenting. As a man who has gone to the ER and said he has chest pain... I can assure you that they don't jump all over you and drop everything else. You get evaluated and you wait. You may not sit in the lobby, but they slap a monitor on you, draw blood and make you sit in an observation bed. Nothing happens fast unless you: 1) Stop breathing 2) Turn blue 3) Make the monitor make funny noises (sometime those patches don't stick too well) ;-) 4) Bleed (when I cut my thumb I had faster treatment than I did with chest pain!) Depending on your insurance, it is probably cheaper to go to the doctors office than to the ER. If it's not a 'medical emergency' depending on insurance it can be either a higher deductible or non-covered... (not to mention it's a waste of medical resources and could prevent someone who is in crisis from getting the attention the need to live). Mike > > Do the ERs treat you quickly if you tell them you have diabetes the way > they > do if a man comes and says he has chest pain or do they leave you waiting > the normal 5 doggone hours? > > JUDITH > > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.0.0/267 - Release Date: 2/22/06 > > > > > > Diabetes homepage: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/diabetes/ > > To unsubscribe to this group, send an email to: > diabetes-unsubscribe > Hope you come back soon! > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 No experience. But I would guess that it depends on many factors... how busy it is and what symptoms you are presenting. As a man who has gone to the ER and said he has chest pain... I can assure you that they don't jump all over you and drop everything else. You get evaluated and you wait. You may not sit in the lobby, but they slap a monitor on you, draw blood and make you sit in an observation bed. Nothing happens fast unless you: 1) Stop breathing 2) Turn blue 3) Make the monitor make funny noises (sometime those patches don't stick too well) ;-) 4) Bleed (when I cut my thumb I had faster treatment than I did with chest pain!) Depending on your insurance, it is probably cheaper to go to the doctors office than to the ER. If it's not a 'medical emergency' depending on insurance it can be either a higher deductible or non-covered... (not to mention it's a waste of medical resources and could prevent someone who is in crisis from getting the attention the need to live). Mike > > Do the ERs treat you quickly if you tell them you have diabetes the way > they > do if a man comes and says he has chest pain or do they leave you waiting > the normal 5 doggone hours? > > JUDITH > > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.0.0/267 - Release Date: 2/22/06 > > > > > > Diabetes homepage: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/diabetes/ > > To unsubscribe to this group, send an email to: > diabetes-unsubscribe > Hope you come back soon! > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 No experience. But I would guess that it depends on many factors... how busy it is and what symptoms you are presenting. As a man who has gone to the ER and said he has chest pain... I can assure you that they don't jump all over you and drop everything else. You get evaluated and you wait. You may not sit in the lobby, but they slap a monitor on you, draw blood and make you sit in an observation bed. Nothing happens fast unless you: 1) Stop breathing 2) Turn blue 3) Make the monitor make funny noises (sometime those patches don't stick too well) ;-) 4) Bleed (when I cut my thumb I had faster treatment than I did with chest pain!) Depending on your insurance, it is probably cheaper to go to the doctors office than to the ER. If it's not a 'medical emergency' depending on insurance it can be either a higher deductible or non-covered... (not to mention it's a waste of medical resources and could prevent someone who is in crisis from getting the attention the need to live). Mike > > Do the ERs treat you quickly if you tell them you have diabetes the way > they > do if a man comes and says he has chest pain or do they leave you waiting > the normal 5 doggone hours? > > JUDITH > > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.0.0/267 - Release Date: 2/22/06 > > > > > > Diabetes homepage: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/diabetes/ > > To unsubscribe to this group, send an email to: > diabetes-unsubscribe > Hope you come back soon! > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 I went in in atria fibulation and spent 27 hours in the emergency room waiting for a bed. This was in Feb 2000. Finally had to have a coronary bypass (5 way) but no heart attack. Left the surgeons shaking their heads. Re: Emergency room question No experience. But I would guess that it depends on many factors... how busy it is and what symptoms you are presenting. As a man who has gone to the ER and said he has chest pain... I can assure you that they don't jump all over you and drop everything else. You get evaluated and you wait. You may not sit in the lobby, but they slap a monitor on you, draw blood and make you sit in an observation bed. Nothing happens fast unless you: 1) Stop breathing 2) Turn blue 3) Make the monitor make funny noises (sometime those patches don't stick too well) ;-) 4) Bleed (when I cut my thumb I had faster treatment than I did with chest pain!) Depending on your insurance, it is probably cheaper to go to the doctors office than to the ER. If it's not a 'medical emergency' depending on insurance it can be either a higher deductible or non-covered... (not to mention it's a waste of medical resources and could prevent someone who is in crisis from getting the attention the need to live). Mike > > Do the ERs treat you quickly if you tell them you have diabetes the way > they > do if a man comes and says he has chest pain or do they leave you waiting > the normal 5 doggone hours? > > JUDITH > > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.0.0/267 - Release Date: 2/22/06 > > > > > > Diabetes homepage: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/diabetes/ > > To unsubscribe to this group, send an email to: > diabetes-unsubscribe > Hope you come back soon! > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 My guess is diabetic problems would only if you were incoherent, in a coma or otherwise in a crisis. Walking in with a 300 or higher blood glucose with no other symptoms probably won't get them to move heaven and earth to get you a bed. But if it's a slow night... maybe. > > Mike, thanks. > > where we live my hubby used to go to various hospital ERs depending on > where > he was working. He is a heart pt as well as diabetic himself but not a > good > example for me LOL.... > > he would say chest hurts/pain, and poof, in any ER he got taken care of > priority and then kept overnight for observation. Usually it was just > fatigue. then after he retired he needed another stent but he's ok. > > Just was wondering if diabetic problems took same priority. > > thanks > > JUDITH > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 My guess is diabetic problems would only if you were incoherent, in a coma or otherwise in a crisis. Walking in with a 300 or higher blood glucose with no other symptoms probably won't get them to move heaven and earth to get you a bed. But if it's a slow night... maybe. > > Mike, thanks. > > where we live my hubby used to go to various hospital ERs depending on > where > he was working. He is a heart pt as well as diabetic himself but not a > good > example for me LOL.... > > he would say chest hurts/pain, and poof, in any ER he got taken care of > priority and then kept overnight for observation. Usually it was just > fatigue. then after he retired he needed another stent but he's ok. > > Just was wondering if diabetic problems took same priority. > > thanks > > JUDITH > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 In a message dated 2/23/2006 11:08:49 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, bad_fairie@... writes: Probably would just tick them off since you took them away from their mind-numbing tasks of sitting on rear, gossiping with each other -- I don't know about ER's in other areas, but believe me the employees in the ER in this area earn every dollar they make. I would not want their jobs, not even for one day. hugs Eunice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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