Fucking Medicare

[sarettah]

Forest I hope it all works out... Hospitals suck from what I know... I hope the rehab staff is better....

I have been in the hospital twice... Once for a burn while in the Navy, they did a great job actually....

But last year, I was having chest pains... I kinda knew it was a muscle spasm, but as it was the second time it happened and I had promised my wife if it happened again etc.... I ended up going in to get checked.

Because it was chest pains, they kept me over night... Did all the bloodwork, all that.

The guy in the emergency room is taking my blood and I tell him that he is taking it from a vein, I know the difference. He says no he isn't and keeps on going.. They are pumping Oxygen into the whole time...

Long story short. The Doc comes back and says "Hey your Oxygen level is way way lower than it should be and she shows me the numbers etc.", I tell her that her guy took the blood from a vein, she says, no, thats not it... I look at the numbers with her again and tell her, well if it's that low I shouldn't even be moving and she agrees... And at that point I just start laughing... I had driven myself in, walked in the door, filled out the papers, and was sitting up straight right in front of her eyes and she still wouldn't believe that they had taken blood out of the vein instead of the artery....

And that was the GOOD hospital, not the county.....