My wife works in the Hospital, she does mammograms so she mostly deals with ladies who are coherent and concerned about their health and generally better people in society. However by trade she is an X-Ray and once every 7 weeks she has to pull a night shift working in the X-ray department. The stories she tells me of the Democrats are crazy.
One night she told me a large lady had a child with a mild cough and fever of 101.1. So instead of getting in her car and driving to Wal Mart to pick up some meds, she picks up the phone and calls the Ambulance to come get and bring them to emergency room. WE paid for that one.
One of the ER Dr's pisses off all the Medicade patients that aren't truly sick. If the triage nurse tells him they in for a cold or something to that effect, he makes them wait for hours. Then when he sees them he tell them to take over the counter meds and follow up with their regular DR. in a day or 2 if things don't clear up. Or course our Wal-Mart closes at 10 so he makes sure they stay in there till at least 11, then they have to drive to Houma or Thibodaux to get OTC meds.
The care is good if you have something truly wrong, I cut my foot and had to get it stitched up, happened at 5 got to the hospital at 5:20 and I was eating Supper at Griffins at 6:25.
Another time I went in for stomach pains at 4 AM, went straight to the back, saw the DR. right away. He ordered a cat scan of my abdomen, read the x-rays and I was in surgery a at 10AM getting my appendix out.
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