Emergency Rooms Make You Wait Too Long

The worst hospital in this area for this problem is Mass. General Hospital, where people will wait 8 hours or more to be seen. However, I am documenting a case at Beth Israel Deaconess/Boston where a woman was in there for 30 hours last August. I asked her permission to write up this incident, and she gave me permission. However, I am giving her a pseudonym of "Miss Steak" because she is a psychiatric patient. I picked this name because she eats a great deal of meat. She eats steak, pot roast, chicken, chicken soup, turkey, keilbasa, hot dogs, salmon, etc.

The Miss Steak Incident

Last August Miss Steak went in to Harvard Vanguard to be seen. She was pink papered. She was strapped up in a stretcher and taken to BI Deaconess/Boston in an ambulance. I witnessed this. They told me to go home. The next day I went to BI Deaconess to the 5th floor psychiatric ward where I expected her to be. She wasn't there. They said that she was still in the ER. I went to the ER. She was still there.

It seems that there was no empty bed on the 5th floor. She was drunk from a massive dose of Haldol that they had given her involuntarily. Finally she was again strapped in a stretcher and put in an ambulance again. She was brought to the Arbour in Jamaica Plain in the ambulance. She was in there four days on a three-day pink paper. She then left against medical advice.

She had to pay around $400 for a bag of Risperidol because she had no medication coverage. A few months later she got a bill for $992 from the Arbour. They said that Blue Cross paid everything except for the $992. She paid the bill immediately. Then 2 weeks later she got another bill for the same $992 that she had already paid. I called up the Arbour and straightened that out, or so I thought. Then another 2 weeks later she again got another bill for the same $992 that she had already paid.

After all of this she is no better than she was last August.

Unnecessary X-Rays

This is a problem not only in ERs but also in Harvard Vanguard Urgent Care. This same individual, who has severe hypochondria, has gotten a hundred unnecessary X-rays. I wish I was exaggerating, but I'm not. She gets imaginary broken bones. Then she goes to the ER or Urgent Care for the imaginary broken bones. They give her an X-Ray as a knee-jerk reflex without even looking at the area in question. She will say, "I bashed me knee." What really happened was that she bumped her knee slightly. So they X-Ray her without telling her that she is getting a dose of radiation. Unfortunately radiation can cause cancer as well as other problems. Every time they X-Ray her, the X-Ray comes out negative.

After 100 unnecessary X-rays that all came out negative at Harvard Vanguard, I made some written complains to Harvard Vanguard Urgent Care. They never replied to the complaints but banned her from Urgent Care temporarily.

Other Issues

At no time was she ever told that there was any danger from X-Rays until I asked the doctor the direct question. The doctor admitted that there was danger from X-rays. At no time was she ever told the side effects from psychiatric drugs. This was also true at the Arbour. She was not given informed consent.

At no time was she ever told about orthomolecular medicine, which is not recognized by the Medical Establishment. The Medical Establishment is hooked on drugs.

But What is the Solution?

I don't know if any law can speed up the ERs. A law could force them to tell people about the drug side effects. A law could force them to tell people about orthomolecular medicine, which is cheaper, safer, and more logical than xenobiotic (drug) medicine. They should be forced to hand every patient a sheet about orthomolecular medicine. This sheet should explain that your body and brain is made up of, fueled by, and repaired by the food that you eat.

Somebody could die waiting to be seen in an ER. The unnecessary X-Rays not only bog the system down, but cost enormous amounts of money. More doctors are needed. More nurses are needed. More and bigger ERs are needed. An alterative medicine hospital and an alternative medicine ER is needed. Medicine has become like a religion in which new ideas are fiercely fought. New ideas are not welcome in religion. People are killed for coming up with new ideas in religion. Medicine should not be like that.

Places that give out psychiatric drugs should give an informed consent sheet listing the side effects of the drug. They should be forced to do this by state law.

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