Funny (?) health care story. Stomach had been hurting for a few weeks. Got on a plane from LA to SF and all the sudden got way worse, like 9/10. Went straight to the ER after landing, threw up all over the place. Got blood tests and CT scan, morphine got pain to 7/10.
Doctor came by, said the scan showed nothing and he was discharging me, I should work on my diet. I said whoa hold on, like can you talk me through what could be going on here, this is the worst pain I've ever had, what can you rule out?
He wouldn't spend more than sixty seconds talking to me, just left and discharged me immediately. The nurse advised that I could just check right back in, so I did. Second doctor kindly went over the test results, explained that they couldn't see anything dangerous yet -
But that didn't mean something dangerous wasn't starting to happen. Gave me pain meds, said if I still needed them tomorrow to come right back in. I did, so I did. Right side of abdomen became tender to touch, white blood cell count spiked.
New CT scan confirmed appendicitis. They operated, it was necrotic and heavily impacted with fecal matter, really severe. Everyone involved was great, recovery super quick, back in the saddle the next day.
But what in god's name was that first ER doctor doing literally throwing me out of the hospital without spending more than sixty seconds with me, "work on your diet" ??? Is this the medical equivalent of the guys telling you to sell options for yield or what
Anyway I'm a nice guy but I'm absolutely putting in every formal complaint to every regulatory agency known to man, the dude should be a gardener
Also, like, I want to say this carefully. But this is a fancy private hospital and I'm obviously a very resourceful, capable, persuasive and pushy individual. Imagine what dealing with this is like if you're a vulnerable person
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