Fleming County Hospital

[kreed2000]

I just want to congradulate Fleming County on their new hospital. I think I will start taking my family there instead of Murderview oh I mean Meadowview. I have taken my children to Murderview so many times and 75% of the time we have left after setting for several hours and also seen many others walk out. I have complained to the Hospital administrater and I think it goes in one ear and out the other. I have heard so many people complain about setting several hours and alot say they are going to Fleming County Hospital. So if Medowview thinks they have no compatition they had better think again. I put the most blame on the E.R. doctors.

[Flame]

I just want to congradulate Fleming County on their new hospital. I think I will start taking my family there instead of Murderview oh I mean Meadowview. I have taken my children to Murderview so many times and 75% of the time we have left after setting for several hours and also seen many others walk out. I have complained to the Hospital administrater and I think it goes in one ear and out the other. I have heard so many people complain about setting several hours and alot say they are going to Fleming County Hospital. So if Medowview thinks they have no compatition they had better think again. I put the most blame on the E.R. doctors.


I think you need to do what you think is best for you and your family.

Let me let you in on a secret about how an ER works. The patient comes in and is assessed by an RN. Patients are then called back to the ER to be seen by the order the patients arrive OR the most critically ill is seen first. The patient then is brought to a room and seen by the doctor. The doctor then writes orders for lab work, x-rays, medicines etc......Some x-rays take longer than others. Say a Cat scan with IV and oral contrast will take a few hours, as it takes about an hour and half to drink the contrast, do the films and then get the results. That person is taking up a bed(rightfully so) for three or maybe 4 hours. You have folks that come in that may have a very deep cut or even one that is close to an artery. That may take the doctor an hour to sew up properly and if it is you, you want it done properly. There is only so many beds in the ER and only so many places beds can be put in the hallways. If you have been there lately you will notice a new/bigger ER in the process.

Then there is the "clinic" patients that are seen. YOu know the sore throat that we've had for a week but never saw the family doctor for, now it is 4 am and it woke me up hurting real bad and I'm running a fever.

An ER, no matter how one tries have folks that are unhappy. In the big city hospitals, you know Cinncinati and Lexington, the wait in the ER is about 5 or so hours to see that RN for the first time. I know been there.

The bottom line is when you are sitting in the ER waiting area you have no clue what is going on in the back. You know the 4 ambulances that pulled in with folks having a heart attack, can't breath and the doctor is putting them on a ventilator to breath for them. Or the motorcycle accident and the person with the severed leg or bleeding. The man with a blood clot in his lung and in danger of dying. In the meantime the nurses are trying not to get hurt by the intoxicated person brought in that is cursing them and threatening them and have to take time out to call in Maysville PD (by the way thanks you all always come as quickly as you can) to come assist so the ER is safe.


Feel free to walk a mile in the shoes of an ER employee. Go to KCTCS and sign up to take classes to be a nurse. Go become and ER doctor to better your local ER. The medical professions could use more folks. Come join us. I just wish when you say mean things about folks you were really knowledgeable about what was really going on behind the scenes.

If it wasn't for privacy laws I'd invite anyone that would like to, to come spend a 12 hour shift at the ER.

I would like to say I think my co-workers are special and not everyone can be in the medical profession if they could there would not be a nationwide nursing shortage.


Have a great day and hope I've shed some light on what goes on while you are in the waiting room.

[kdown]

Good job Flame

[jess41056]

I (and my family) ususlly go to Fleming county hospital also. The ER is 100 % better there. I have never waited more than an half an hour in there. Here I have waited 3 + hrs even when my daughter had a temp of 102.. and there was only one other patient in the waiting room. In Fleming county the dr's want to help unlike at Maysville, where the nurses seem like it is a burden to help. I am glad that Fleming county got the new hospital! But that is just my opinion....

[jmarks211]

I am not one to speak up on issues as these.

You have too realize people that Meadoview Hospital serves over 7 counties they see over 100,000 people a year. If you realize how many people that is. Flemming Co Hospital does not have that volume of people.

So yes you are going to get that kind of service, and unfortunatly you can not please every one. The ER is for emergencies and not for a sore throat. Why pay over 500+ to see a ER doctor vers a 100 fee for a doctor. The ER is hounded daily in every city for needless visits to the ER when they should just go to the Doctor.

I had worked at Meadowview Regional for 4 years and even though I do not work there any more I still have too say they are the best people to work with. They do their best and work hard at their jobs.

[bubbysgarage]

I'm with Flame on this one. I so wish you all could go and spend one shift with the ER employees. Last night would have been a good night too. Just because all you see sitting in the waiting room is one person that doesn't mean that 4 squads didn't bring people in. Last night it was a revolving door of squads. Its not just the city of Maysville that Meadowview serves.....Manchester EMS brings their patients to Meadowview as well as others. I have been in the ER with both my kids as patients and with my husband when he totaled his motorcycle and have only had one issue and that was with a doc...i was treated like I didn't know my head from a hole in the ground and i put him in his place real quick...and never had another problem the rest of the 8 hours I was there.

[SilverFox]

Be glad you don't live in eastern Tennessee. Our ERs are always full of illegals. I had a friend who had to go to one of our local hosp. one night due to chest pain and she said she had to wait and wait and the only other people were non-English speaking Mexicans. She had to show proof of insurance while they get free care.

[tkcomer]

Off topic, but that's why the area needs an urgent care center. So a sick kid can be seen by a doctor after 5PM for example. And not at some emergency room. Believe me, I don't accidentally cut myself to the point of needing stitches from 9 to 5 on Monday through Friday.

[Flame]

Off topic, but that's why the area needs an urgent care center. So a sick kid can be seen by a doctor after 5PM for example. And not at some emergency room. Believe me, I don't accidentally cut myself to the point of needing stitches from 9 to 5 on Monday through Friday.

That is what the ER is for. Stitches, broken bones, heart attacks, things that just happen. Sore throat for a week should have been seen by a doctor in a weeks time. Children with fevers that have not been treated with Tylenol or Motrin. Somethings can be treated at home and them the doctor called in AM. What happens when these non-emergencies come into the ER---they are seen and treated. The local pediatricians office is open late, like 8PM. My son has been seen at 7:45 PM before. You folks have no clue how many patients that are seen in an ER for clinic stuff because they have no family doctor, a list if family doctors that are accepting new patients is given to them and in a week or so they will return for something clinic and never get a family doctor.

Since Adams County hospital moved when an ambulance is dispatched in Manchester or close to Bentonville instead of going to Adams county they come to Maysville due to it being closer and by law an ambulance called out on a 911 call must take the pateint to the closest hospital.


I urge you to call and see how many patients were seen in Fleming County ER last year and how many were seen in Meadowviews.

To get this straight---I have nothing bad to say about Fleming County hospital---I'm just letting you know how things work.

Oh and yes, earlier this year my mother(age,70) sat in the waiting room at Fleming County for 4 hours waiting to be seen. They were busy, and never did I or my family say anything bad. Why??? I know how an ER works. Takes time for blood work to get done, xrays to get done etc....Oh I said that before.Oh yeah and if a patient needs to be transferred it takes one nurse about an hour or so to do that. That is if the accepting hospital calls back to say they will accept the patient. Yeah they have to says ok to send before we can cause if we don't that is I believe a $10,000 fine and against the law. Some of them big City hospitals are full and can't accept and another hospital has to be called which now you are back to square one.
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I (and my family) ususlly go to Fleming county hospital also. The ER is 100 % better there. I have never waited more than an half an hour in there. Here I have waited 3 + hrs even when my daughter had a temp of 102.. and there was only one other patient in the waiting room. In Fleming county the dr's want to help unlike at Maysville, where the nurses seem like it is a burden to help. I am glad that Fleming county got the new hospital! But that is just my opinion....


How many ambulances came in the ER when you were waiting??What else was going on in the ER??? When you and the other patient were in the waiting area was there empty beds in ER or were they all full? WAs the hallway full was there a patient in the xray department??? I'm gonna bet you have no idea. If you feel your care is that much better at Fleming County I'd say go there.

Once again I will take offense to your "the nurses seem like it is a burden to help" comment. THat is a very stessful and as you prove thankless job, and again if it wasn't for privacy issues I'd invite you to a 12 hour shift with me. But since you have judged me I'll say I'd doubt you would survive the first 6.

[Brian K Beckett]

Good point TK,

I dont visit doctors or ERs no more often then I have too. I am sure people do use them for little things but I will say I have had problems getting into a doctors office in a timeley fashion. I have even been told that the opointment would even be as far off as 6 days to get in one time for an illness but then they did take me in the next day.


Here is a question does Has anyone seen the posters in iMedowview about it being rated one of the top 100 Hospitals? Now research why it is rated one of the top 100.


On a side not not specifically releated to Medowview but to all doctors in general. Explain to my why if a person goes to a doctor and is diagnosed and treated for something then it does not work and go back and get re diagnosed and treated for something else. Why is it If a doctor gives you the wron diognoses and treatment and a person has to go back do they have to pay the doctor twice? If you had your car looked at by a mechanic and he worked on it gave it back to you and you still had the same problem and he worked on it again would you pay him for his service twice?

[jess41056]

I am juding every nurse that I have seen in the ER. I am sure there are some good ones out there. My daughter almost died in the E.R. simply because they could not give her an IV. We drove to Children's hosptial the same night, and they didn't have any proplems there. My mother is a nurse, and I do know how stressful of a job it can be. That is why I have chosen not to be one. my opinion is just that, an opinion so do not get defensive. If I wouldn't have went through what I had with my daughter there, then maybe I would have a better view. I am am not dissing every nurse, just the ones that I have had problems with.

[tkcomer]

I understand that people are using the ER for non emergencies. That's why bigger cities have these urgent care centers. A lot of people don't have regular doctors. They don't go anywhere near a doctor unless they get clear down. Then it's to late to hunt for one. But most could be treated at an urgent care center and not tie up the ER. I love my doctor. But when I come to the ER, I can't get him. And I don't question who I get. I want relief from whatever problem I have. And I'm thankful to get it. But parents with sick kids try to let it "run it's course". Most times, it works out. But when it doesn't, they'll go anywhere and do anything to ease the suffering of their child. Around here, that's the ER.

[Flame]

I understand that people are using the ER for non emergencies. That's why bigger cities have these urgent care centers. A lot of people don't have regular doctors. They don't go anywhere near a doctor unless they get clear down. Then it's to late to hunt for one. But most could be treated at an urgent care center and not tie up the ER. I love my doctor. But when I come to the ER, I can't get him. And I don't question who I get. I want relief from whatever problem I have. And I'm thankful to get it. But parents with sick kids try to let it "run it's course". Most times, it works out. But when it doesn't, they'll go anywhere and do anything to ease the suffering of their child. Around here, that's the ER.

I agree an urgent care center is needed. When the new ER is here the physicians group that has a contract with Meadowview to provide them with ER physicians is looking into a second doctor. That will speed things up to a certain extent.

I understand some parents ty to let it run it's course. But you don't see for how long. "It started last Saturday" This is the following Sunday--and no family doctor has been seen. In 8 days a family doctor should have been consulted. Two maybe three days of a fever(depending on how high it goes) has not run it's course it needs checked out. I have even been working day shift and the parents bring in the sick child, tells they have tried to get them into the doctor and they were booked, I"ve called the doctors office and they have not heard from them. I have on occasion told them the doc will see them, but leave it up to them to see the ER doc or go to the pediatrician. So many times we taxpayers are paying for whichever visit they choose. MD office=$150. ER visit=$500-$100.Where would you rather your tax dollars be spent.

The bottom line is most people can talk (with knowledge) of maybe 1-2 visits last year. I can talk (with knowledge) of about 1-2 thousands ER visits last year.

[diabetesawarness]

I am not a nurse nor am i a doctor and i refuse to be because i don't have the heart or guts to do so... but I take offense to all these comments because ALL my bills are paid for by a RN in the local ER... In that same ER, i went in due to pain in my lower right abdomen, for those of you who doesn't know, that is where the appendix is located, thank god it wasnt my appendix it was an ovarian cyst, but while I am laying in the hospital in room 3, an ambulance arrives and I get 'put on hold' so to say, but had you been in the ER that day and saw that man, he was much more critical than myself. Did i complain? **** no! Because had that been my mother, grandmother, father, aunt, uncle, or grandfather coming in with a heartattack, i would want them taken care IMMEDIATELY. I have went to the ER several times to take food, pop, money, etc to my mother and saw really how busy they are. Im not real sure what any of you all do for a living and quite frankly I don't care, but before you judge the life of anyone else, MAKE SURE YOUR HANDS ARE CLEAN!!!

[Flame]

I am juding every nurse that I have seen in the ER. I am sure there are some good ones out there. My daughter almost died in the E.R. simply because they could not give her an IV. We drove to Children's hosptial the same night, and they didn't have any proplems there. My mother is a nurse, and I do know how stressful of a job it can be. That is why I have chosen not to be one. my opinion is just that, an opinion so do not get defensive. If I wouldn't have went through what I had with my daughter there, then maybe I would have a better view. I am am not dissing every nurse, just the ones that I have had problems with.

Your comment said "where the nurses" you did not say where a few nurses, so it sounded like you were bunching us all together. We are not perfect and do not get every IV. But 99.9% we do. Why would I not get defensive? You may not have mentioned my name but you were talking about me when you said where those nurses act like you are a burden. I've done this for over 20 years and I get frustrated but believe me I would have done something else by now if I didn't like it. IN fact I was an LPN for 18 years and went back and racked up $18,000 in student loans to further my career and become an RN. Believe me I didn't do that because I think patients are a burden.

You said your daughter about died because the ER couldn't get in an IV. If it was life or death the doctor would have put in a central line or we would have put in and intraossious. Also, you would not have been able to drive a child to Childrens if they almost died.......

[kdown]

Flame. Don't let them get under your skin. Yours is a GREAT profession. Thanks for doing what you do

[Cobra]

Here is a question does Has anyone seen the posters in iMedowview about it being rated one of the top 100 Hospitals? Now research why it is rated one of the top 100.


When people see that Meadowview is rated among the 100 best hospitals in the U.S. they assume this means we have a top notch facility, (patient care, doctors, etc.). I was told by an EMT that this list is about profitability. Meadowview is one of the top 100 most profitable hospitals in the U.S.

[diabetesawarness]

thank you kdown!! For flame is my mother!!

[acj]

A few years ago a friend of mine,, from out of town was visiting and got sick. I'm thinking that I hate to take out her to the ER....to sit for several hours/out of network insurance, etc. only to be told that it was "gas". I did take her to Meadowview. While we were filling out the "paperwork" the lady on the desk alerted the ER nurse to the degree of her pain, her vomiting, etc, and she was taken right back to the ER to be assessed. Turned out that she was in the middle of a massive heart attack. The ER doctor gave her a clot buster, stopped the heart attack and then sent had her flown to Lexington for further treatment. Her life was saved by the ER staff (including the lady who asked for the insurance card) at Meadowview.

[jess41056]

Children's hosptial said that if we did arrive that night she would have not made it. We got there at midnight, and they had her in surgery at 2 a.m. Thank goodness she is doing good now. After seeing my daughter poked over 20 times, I was not about to stay there for any nurse or DR to continue with her. That's why we left to get good care for her. I cannot say that you are a good nurse or not, cause I am not going to judge those who I do not know. But I do not think that you should say, that my daughter did not almost die, I was there, I lived it, I know. Thank goodness she is doing good now.

[Brian K Beckett]

When people see that Meadowview is rated among the 100 best hospitals in the U.S. they assume this means we have a top notch facility, (patient care, doctors, etc.). I was told by an EMT that this list is about profitability. Meadowview is one of the top 100 most profitable hospitals in the U.S.


Exactly Correct!!!

[Sassie Mama]

I for one like to Thanks all the nurses at Meadowview especially our own here. Thanks Flame for all the hard work you put into your job !!!!!!!!!

[Flame]

Children's hosptial said that if we did arrive that night she would have not made it. We got there at midnight, and they had her in surgery at 2 a.m. Thank goodness she is doing good now. After seeing my daughter poked over 20 times, I was not about to stay there for any nurse or DR to continue with her. That's why we left to get good care for her. I cannot say that you are a good nurse or not, cause I am not going to judge those who I do not know. But I do not think that you should say, that my daughter did not almost die, I was there, I lived it, I know. Thank goodness she is doing good now.

YOu had already judged me when you grouped all of the ER nurses together. You had one bad experience, I understand it was one involving your daughter and very upsetting. Does not mean the entire ER is bad or that your life may not be saved by it one day. I only had a few details to go on about your daughter, just saying I've never been in the ER when a child has been stuck 20 times or during a life threatening situation and IV has not been established. I can't say but maybe an IV was necessary to get the lab work and/or xrays to diagnose the problem in which the illness was discovered and surgery was deemed necessary.I was just saying it must not have appeared to the ER staff to be life threatening at the time, things change in an hour or so, or a central line or intraossious would have been established. Before that could be done you stated you removed your child from the ER and went elsewhere. As I've said before I nor any nurse I work with is perfect and we can't always get IV's especially if a child is dehydrated. Since you did not mention the type surgery your child had or any details I cannot agree or disagree with what Children's said about your child making it or not.

Saying I was rude may be on target. But you saying you left to get good care is sounding like you are saying good care cannot be recieved in your local ER. That is rude as again you don't know me or the care I give.

YOu don't want me to judge you for what went on with your daughter and I likewise do not want to be judged by one bad experience that frankly I may not of been involved with. YOu day you do not judge me as you don't know me but you continue to group the nurses together. I'm very happy to know your daughter is doing good these days.


And thanks to those of you that have supported us. You will always hear the bad things but very seldom the good. For 1 or 2 bad experiences though there will be 20 success stories. But the only ones that seem to get repeated are the bad stories.

But no matter how bad people want to talk about me and my co-workers I'll go back and save the lives of those that cursed me last week without prejudice.

You know there is some nights I've went to work and couldn't start and IV on anyone. No matter how good the veins were I couldn't get it. I personally have a two stick limit. If I don't get it in two tries someone else will have to try it.
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I for one like to Thanks all the nurses at Meadowview especially our own here. Thanks Flame for all the hard work you put into your job !!!!!!!!!

You are very welcome!!!!!

I guess what upsets me the most is to know how hard we work for little thanks. Don't get me wrong I don't do this job for a pat on the back but I think if you can put us down you could at least find one positive thing to say.

I, as a diabetic, have went my 12 hour shift without eating because I was caring for others that I brought their health before mine. WHy? I love my job. I love caring for others. I do it for all and continue to do it for the ones truely greatful for what I do.

Sassie come see me anytime.

[towboatinwife]

I totally understand where Flame is coming from,,but on the other hand I too am a mother and know how I have been treated. I would rather go to my ped.. any day than trusting any other doc. but there are times that us as parents feel we cant wait till morning. I know that on several occasions my kids have been running a high fever and I have done everything to help. Like meds, taking there clothes off, and putting them in a cool bath but when that fails and your kid is screaming for hours they need relief and so do WE!! With my trips I have a couple of good experiences but mostly not. SOME nurses and docs act like were crazy or that they could care less or treat us like were idiots. That has been my experiences....

[Brian K Beckett]

I for one like to Thanks all the nurses at Meadowview especially our own here. Thanks Flame for all the hard work you put into your job !!!!!!!!!

I do not have a problem with the nurses but I do have some issues with other things about Medowview and I hope Fleming Co. does not try to operate like Medowview just because they are getting a bigger hospital.

[Flame]

I totally understand where Flame is coming from,,but on the other hand I too am a mother and know how I have been treated. I would rather go to my ped.. any day than trusting any other doc. but there are times that us as parents feel we cant wait till morning. I know that on several occasions my kids have been running a high fever and I have done everything to help. Like meds, taking there clothes off, and putting them in a cool bath but when that fails and your kid is screaming for hours they need relief and so do WE!! With my trips I have a couple of good experiences but mostly not. SOME nurses and docs act like were crazy or that they could care less or treat us like were idiots. That has been my experiences....

I am sorry that you have has such experiences. I sure hope I haven't been one of them as I try not to. It does not help but we too have bad nights and experiences. I have had my life threatened and been cursed, spit at, attempted to be bit. If you happened to have come in after one of those experiences I may have been a little unnerved at the time.

Sorry and hope your next trip/s is as pleasant as can be.

[jess41056]

Flame,
My daughter was born with Pyloric Stenosis, I am sure that the spelling is off... She was in and out of the hospital 3 or 4 times before she was a month old for failure to thrive. I am really not trying to argue, or make anyone feel bad. It's just my experience that makes it a little frustrating. Isn't the ER in Maysville, getting a make over soon too? I thought I read in the newspaper that they were expanding....

[littlelee]

My only issue with the ER at Meadowview is with the doctors. I don't even remember his name, but I had taken my daughter in with what we thought was a broken arm. She had taken a pretty hard fall at basketball practice and couldn't move her arm. The doctor was very condescending to us and acted like our daughter was faking and that we were idiots because we believed her. Believe me, if it hadn't been late, I'd have taken her to her pediatrician but he was already gone for the day. When my husband fell out of the barn & broke his foot a few years back, the doctor we had that day was a real jerk too. But, in all honesty, most doctors anymore don't have any compassion for patients. What ever happened to doctors who really cared about their patients and did all they could to make them well. I think too many people become doctors for the wrong reason.

[jmarks211]

I have worked side by side with the nurses of Meadowview and no one has the right to judge them. I have seen Nurses work with out eating, passing out, or just sit down and cry because of the work load. I will defend any nurse at Meadowview they are still family to me.

I agree with Flame on the sticks nurses quit after two sticks then they call your physician at home. One thing I feel people do not understand is
is

A NURSE CAN NOT DO ANY THING WITH OUT A DOCTORS ORDER.

Once the order is given it has to be done.

So if your doctor told your nurse that night a different route of treatment that you did not agree with or you just got mad and left the hospital and refused them to work on your daughter. I don't know what to tell you. That was a decision you made in your type of care.

Why if your daughter was so sick, why put her in a car? Why not ask for a transfer to another facility? Why not demand to talk to your doctor at home.

WAKE UP AMERICA

Do for yourself. Get off the couch from CSI. Go to the doctor if you notice something wrong. The last miniute is to late.

[littlelee]

That is what the ER is for. Stitches, broken bones, heart attacks, things that just happen. Sore throat for a week should have been seen by a doctor in a weeks time. Children with fevers that have not been treated with Tylenol or Motrin. Somethings can be treated at home and them the doctor called in AM. What happens when these non-emergencies come into the ER---they are seen and treated. The local pediatricians office is open late, like 8PM. My son has been seen at 7:45 PM before. You folks have no clue how many patients that are seen in an ER for clinic stuff because they have no family doctor, a list if family doctors that are accepting new patients is given to them and in a week or so they will return for something clinic and never get a family doctor.





This is the kind of thing that really aggravates me. And I'll just about guarantee you that the majority of these people get a medical card so they don't care that it costs way more to go to the ER than to a doctor. Please don't get me wrong. I know there are people that have no other way to receive medical care without the medical card so I'm not against that at all, but there are alot of people out there who get medical assistance that should be working and aren't and they're the ones that are costing the taxpayers more money by making non-emergency trips to the ER. Just my opinion, which isn't worth much.

I also would like to add my appreciation to Flame and other nurses. That is a job I could not do, so I appreciate those who can and want to. Keep up the good work.

[jess41056]

I did not request transfer, because we could not afford it. We went to our family DR at least twice a week. One week we were there 5 times. But no one could figure out what was wrong with her. We definitely did not wait until the last minute, calling her family DR would not have helped because we had been there for the same issue at least 20 times. The reason it was hard for anyone to diagnois her was because her medical issue is usually only found in boys. This is when she was about 5 weeks old; she is almost 5 now and doing great!!

[Huey]

Like any other profession, you have the "good, the bad, and the ugly". Unfortunately, we as humans usually remember the "bad & ugly" foremost before the "good & the great". I have had great nurses & awful nurses, I have had great doctors & awful doctors, I have had great teachers and awful teachers, I have had great waitress/waitors & awful waitress/waitors...the list goes on...
I would not deter the MRMH ER because for #1, my pediatrician is VERY close, #2-they are the closest & if someone I know needs lifesaving services/meds-I'll get them there.
But for "maybe broken bones" or something to that extint, I'd go to the family doc first if it was within operating hours/distance. Otherwise, I'll have my hind-end at the ER-lol
I for one would like to thank all the wonderful nurses I've had & also to stick my tongue out to the ones who weren't much to brag on. lol
On a serious note- we'll all humans, we're all subject to bad days & to notorious attitudes- but we're in this together so may as well make the best of it.
PLEASE, Flame & all you other nurses out there: Don't give up & keep truckin': Fools like myself need gals/guys like you all!!
ps- if anyone knows a male nurse at MRMH in 2001, tell him thanks for getting me through "shock" after having an emergency c-sec (my body was literally bouncing off the stretcher thing with a temp of 104!). He was the only one who could get the 2nd or 3rd IV in me (due to the involuntary bouncing). He was great & my hub & myself thought he was wonderful.

[towboatinwife]

I did not request transfer, because we could not afford it. We went to our family DR at least twice a week. One week we were there 5 times. But no one could figure out what was wrong with her. We definitely did not wait until the last minute, calling her family DR would not have helped because we had been there for the same issue at least 20 times. The reason it was hard for anyone to diagnois her was because her medical issue is usually only found in boys. This is when she was about 5 weeks old; she is almost 5 now and doing great!!


Kind of off the subject but my first son also had PS....He had his surgery at 6 weeks old...luckily we didnt have the problem you did ....our ped..is great and picked up on it after he saw it with his own eyes..lol..and it is very unusual to see it in girls..

[diabetesawarness]

First off jess... im sorry to hear about your daughter and am glad she is doing great now... I am also very sorry about your experience...


Im not putting down or judging anyone, but i want everyone to see it from a different point of view... not as a nurse or doctor, or a patient, but as a DEDICATED NURSES DAUGHTER... Im not in any sort of way saying my mother is the greatest nurse in the world, but to me she is... i have not only seen my mother happy that she saved a life/lives, but i have watched my mother sit at home and cry her eyes out because she couldn't save a life... i have also had to do more to help my mother out in my teenage years than most do, because any time my mother would get a phone call from work saying she was needed, SHE WENT!! Not because work was more important than my brother and I, but because someone needed her more at the moment... We were home safe and fine, and someone needed her to save their life. My brother and I have been in bed at night for my mother to wake me to tell me she got a call from a patient who needed her not as ER nurse but as a home health nurse... Also as a daughter of an ER nurse, my mother is very strict on me and Im thankful for that each and every day...

And though i tell my mother all the time how proud I am of her, I never have in public... until now... MOM, FLAME, NURSE, WHATEVER... i am so happy to have you as a mother and nurse... you are the greatest nurse i know and im very proud of you and all you've accomplished... i love you!!!


Now, not saying anyone has judged my mother personally, but i hope this is some insight into how dedicated and caring SOME nurses are... it takes a special person to be a nurse and see and go through all they do... i just wish there were more people willing to do it... i'll be the first to admit... I CAN'T AND WON'T... but im glad there are people who can...

[Brian K Beckett]

Flame: If you ever happen to see my name on a chart and I am being treated for kidney stones I ask one thing. Skip the morphene and go straight for the dim er all. And you wont have to worry about me giving anyone attitude or harassing for a pillow.

[Flame]

Flame: If you ever happen to see my name on a chart and I am being treated for kidney stones I ask one thing. Skip the morphene and go straight for the dim er all. And you wont have to worry about me giving anyone attitude or harassing for a pillow.

All I can do is give what the doctor orders. I can tell him in the past the morphine didn't work. But as a nurse we can only follow doctors orders. Actually they have a non-narcotic medicine they try using first and seems to help a majority of kidney stone patients. If I see your name I'll do what i can and stay in the limits of the law.

[lring54]

I have been reading about the problems with Meadowview and Fleming Co. Hospitals and their Dr.'s. Just be glad you have a choice to go where you what to go and there is a doctor there to treat you.

[Crap Magnet]

Seems the biggest problem is not the facility, but is in fact the expectations of the patients and their perception of what is an EMERGENCY and what isn't.

[kdown]

Center Disease Control News Release

ATLANTA (AP) - The average time that hospital emergency rooms patients wait to see a doctor has grown from about 38 minutes to almost an hour over the past decade, according to new federal statistics released Wednesday.

The increase is due to supply and demand, said Dr. Stephen Pitts, the lead author of the report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"There are more people arriving at the ERs. And there are fewer ERs," said Pitts, an associate professor of emergency medicine at Atlanta's Emory University.

Overall, about 119 million visits were made to emergency rooms in 2006, up from 90 million in 1996 - a 32 percent increase.