FRIEND'S....This is a must read post
concerning our Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre....yesterday I
took someone who is near and very dear too me to her family doctor for
an appointment at 2:20 p.m.
Well she was at her doctors office for exactly 1 hour....and then arrangements where made via telephone call to the EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT for them to be on the lookout for her because her doctor feared that she might just have a BLOOD CLOT in her lungs...so I got her there by 3:40 p.m. yesterday afternoon.
Now you all must be made aware that such a case is considered a CODE 2 on the scale of urgency...which is very high..."however no at our hospital"...when we got there they even denied even getting the phone call from the family doctor.
Anyway I explained the situation and how I saw it that they were not living up to their MISSION STATEMENT...and none of what I said mattered...so we waited in the normal waiting room until 5:15 p.m. which if in fact you had a blood clot in your lungs you would have most likely either stroked out or had a heart attack by this time.
In the meantime...6 regular patients sitting in the same waiting room with way less severe reasons for being there were all in turn taken into the actual E.R. department ahead of the person I had brought there..."SO MUCH FOR THEIR RATING SYSTEM" of what is considered an urgent health problem...!!!
The time it took to have blood testing, chest x-rays done and to discuss all what was happening with the E.R. doctor all took and additional 3 hours exactly.
In the end there was no blood clot in her lungs and she is A-Okay...but our hospital is severely flawed...there are signs in the E R department that clearly state "1 person per patient" yet some patients had as many as 5 people in there with them...no one enforces the rules over their...and once again at 4 p.m. there were 2 Thunder Bay Police Cars attending to the ER department in turn they were not out there patrolling the streets as they should be...the police officers are tied up there for hours...and even the O.P.P. were in the place around 6 p.m. as well.
Well she was at her doctors office for exactly 1 hour....and then arrangements where made via telephone call to the EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT for them to be on the lookout for her because her doctor feared that she might just have a BLOOD CLOT in her lungs...so I got her there by 3:40 p.m. yesterday afternoon.
Now you all must be made aware that such a case is considered a CODE 2 on the scale of urgency...which is very high..."however no at our hospital"...when we got there they even denied even getting the phone call from the family doctor.
Anyway I explained the situation and how I saw it that they were not living up to their MISSION STATEMENT...and none of what I said mattered...so we waited in the normal waiting room until 5:15 p.m. which if in fact you had a blood clot in your lungs you would have most likely either stroked out or had a heart attack by this time.
In the meantime...6 regular patients sitting in the same waiting room with way less severe reasons for being there were all in turn taken into the actual E.R. department ahead of the person I had brought there..."SO MUCH FOR THEIR RATING SYSTEM" of what is considered an urgent health problem...!!!
The time it took to have blood testing, chest x-rays done and to discuss all what was happening with the E.R. doctor all took and additional 3 hours exactly.
In the end there was no blood clot in her lungs and she is A-Okay...but our hospital is severely flawed...there are signs in the E R department that clearly state "1 person per patient" yet some patients had as many as 5 people in there with them...no one enforces the rules over their...and once again at 4 p.m. there were 2 Thunder Bay Police Cars attending to the ER department in turn they were not out there patrolling the streets as they should be...the police officers are tied up there for hours...and even the O.P.P. were in the place around 6 p.m. as well.
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