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by tropdrop
261 days ago
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The same experience happened to me, but it was even better – I was told I had a "little paronychia" and lanced without anesthetic. Her scalpel rubbing against two nerves in the nailbed of my thumb, the ER doctor lanced and scraped without so much as lidocaine (or even tylenol!) The next day I almost lost my thumb, because this sadist that enjoyed cutting me open without any painkillers didn't bother to check whether the infection spread to my bone. I was also misdiagnosed by her, and would have lost it had my PC not found a hand surgeon in the nick of time. Meanwhile, to curtains on either side of me at this hospital were people who were clearly homeless and had come in with some fentanyl withdrawal symptomps, but mostly so that they could sleep on a bed. When my partner tried to intervene and say that he's never seen me in this much pain, the doctor looked at me like I was a junkie, telling me that "it wouldn't hurt if I wasn't acting up." I understand the "next, next" that happens from burnout, but this was next level sadism. No empathy; she actually seemed to enjoy my pain. No legal action was possible since this was an "emergency room environment" and she was only there "part time." This was UCSF Saint Francis/ Dignity Health in Nob Hill. Please avoid this hospital if you're in San Francisco. |
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This thread is filled with terrible people. Self righteous self aggrandizing zero real world experience "Justice warriors" I hope they all need an ER someday to see just how dire it really has become. Maybe that will shove some real world knowledge into their empty heads.
Neither of us is the villain here. The people massively abusing the system are.
I realize my comment is not "nice" but the people on here jumping on villainize my real life experience are terrible people. Both of us were wronged by a system. We did not do the wrong. We just noticed what was a large cause of it because we actually experienced it.