Bay Area Man Dies Of Heart Attack In ER After Waiting 8 Hours

I was sent to the ER from Urgent Care with an EKG showing I had had or was about to have a heart attack. I sat in the waiting room for over 4 hours. I had 2 submassive pulmonary embolisms that caused a heart attack & heart damage & a DVT. The doctors in the ER asked me how I got in there. I said I walked. They said according to your EKG, CT scan & blood work that's almost impossible. And to think not only did I walk in there but I sat in your waiting room for over 4 hours while you had evidence in your hand which is negligence!!!

2 years ago I had a colon bleed and went to ER on doctors orders. Told them I was sent because of bleeding...10 hours later I called my husband to come get me I was laying on the floor in ER and ignored, I could not advocate for myself too weak...he took me home (one hour drive from host.) called the ambulance, they freaked out when they heard the nightmare I had been though...took me in and ended up in ICU for 4 days hosp for 10 days took 5 units of blood and 4 different procedures to get bleeding stopped!...I'm 74 and have lasting effects due to anemia and losing muscle from bed ridden etc...broken health care system is killing us!!

Only a doctor would be shocked that something like that was happening in ER. They never see what goes on in the front of the ER.

I got a call from lab telling me to go to ER as my hemoglobin was 5.4 and I was critical. I went, was not believed, ignored. After about 3 hours, and the intake was examining her belly button, I called 911 and told the police that I was in danger and the ER would not treat me. She overheard me, panicked and checked my blood, saying oh my god your hemoglobin is 5.4. Several hours later I finally got a transfusion.

Conversations I've had in the ER: You're too young to be having stroke. You don't look sick. Why do you think you have epilepsy?' Cussing at my invisible veins that are collapsing. Insisting that I get up on my own, when I have POTS. And my favorite question: What do you want us to do about it? ETA: If you are coherent and educated enough to advocate for yourself, the staff will figure it's not really an emergency, because you "seem fine".

I took my sister to supposedly a great hospital in Ormond Beach fl. She had severe abdominal pain. She was bent over gripping her stomach and barely conciouz. I asked for a wheel chair and the man told me to hold her up! What? I raised my voice when I realized the kind of people I was dealing with. I demanded a wheelchair and an ice pack to keep her from fainting. When they took her in they gave her an ultrasound and said she was constipated. Shocking to her because that was never her problem. They sent us to the drug store for items to fix that problem but my sister said, no. She knew it was something else. Turns out it was a cyst on her ovary that was about to burst and a twisted fallopian tube. She was scheduled for surgery the next day by her own Dr.

They misdiagnosed my wife. They said she was pregnant. She wasn't. Went to another Dr. And he said she had cysts,8 center meters large. She ended up with Ovarian Cancer stage 4. Thank God we had the right Dr. She is still here today.

It seems like gaslighting is a common thing

8 hs in a ER waiting room after having been there earlier in the day due to severe neck shoulder and chest pain. After blood tests and xrays they send me home with a bottle of pain meds. The pain only got worse and I was back later that night - ended up waiting 8 hours to be seen again. They didn't see me until after the shift changed on the ER desk, my best guess is they thought I wanted more pain pills, I did not, nor did I have a history of pill seeking. When they finally did see me again, and did another chest scan and more blood tests, they had to pack me up immediately and ship me to a neighboring hospital for emergency surgery. Apparently I had a blood infection that developed at the site of a past surgery and infected several bones at the site of the scar. I ended up having 2 surgeries and spending 8 days in the hospital followed by 30 days of IV antibiotics. It was horrible. I warn people now that the only way to arrive at a hospital ER is via an ambulance. Walk ins do not seem to be taken seriously until it is too late.

Yup, i had called 911 when my hubby suffered seizures in the doctor's waiting room. A lot of the patients help to hold him down. The EMS came & was shocked & asked where are the nurses, i said behind the glass window just watching us like a side show. Sad but true.

I’ve worked in emergency medicine since the 1970’s. Emergency health care has degraded from wonderful to horrific.

I'm at the point where I'd literally rather DIE than go to the emergency room because I am on pain management and I am treated like a drug seeker, regardless of why I go in, EVERY time I've gone. The ER dismisses me and once it almost cost me my life. I was so sick and my gut was hurting and they said "you have the stomach flu, go home and come back if you have a fever." I kept telling them no, something is really wrong. They wouldn't conduct any tests. So I went home and my daughter found me at the top of the stairs in the early morning hours on deaths door. My bowel perforated soon after getting home in the late night from the ER and my entire body was septic. I was in an induced coma for 8 days while they cleaned me out, then I had to wait 2 weeks to get stronger and go into surgery to cut away all the torn colon and give me rows of staples. Turns out I had diverticulitis and one was infected and it perforated. They said I was the youngest person they had ever seen with it. That was the start of the downhill medical spiral and it traumatize my daughters seeing me lifeless at the top of the stairs.

I'm happy I live in Central IL. Last Tuesday 7/9. I was diaphoretic, checked my blood sugar it was 130, so not that. Took warm shower did not tary. Put on shirt underwear and shorts. Thought cereal would be good, took 1 bite knew I shouldn't do, googled women heart attack, called 911, told them I was having heart attack or panic attack. When I was in ambulance they ran EKG, said you are in a middle of heart attack. Then my left arm was squeezing and back started to hurt. Lights and sirens to hospital, Dr was waiting for me, Cath lab and triage people had me up in cath lab in 10 minutes. 100% blockage LAD, 2 stents placed. I was office medical receptionist for 47 years and we had in-service training as women and men's symptoms are different for heart attacks. Thank you for putting out videos to educate the public.

I was in the ER waiting to be seen for hours and while there, a woman was rolling on the floor crying in excruciating abdominal pain and vomiting and she begged for help. She was triaged and sent back to the waiting room. She waited 2 more hours and her husband finally took her to another ER.

Its so unfortunate every time I hear a nurse or a doctor say something along the lines of “You’re too young to be having (insert whatever symptom you’re telling them you are experiencing) “. My boyfriend went to his doctor with chest pain down the left side and what felt like bad heartburn and other symptoms. He was a diabetic and his glucose had been in the 600s. They took his bloodpressure and told him he was too young to have a heart attack and sent him home. He passed away a few hours later of a massive heart attack at 39.

I was pregnant with an ectopic pregnancy and having a miscarriage and went to the emergency room because I was bleeding excessively. I checked in, and sat down. I was a white lady, 32 years old, and my husband met me there. There were little kids and old people with flu symptoms and they were being seen in this ER. I waited about and hour and checked with the desk again and then about three hours and began cramping terribly. I went back up to the desk and told them I needed to lay down and I understand the doctor isn’t ready to see me but if they don’t have an empty room where I can lay down, i will lay down on that rolling bed in that corner right over there or maybe over there on the floor. I started crying because i was in quite a lot of pain and she said I just can’t help you. Then I went over to the rolling bed and laid down and the hospital staff said I couldn’t stay there. An older lady (white hair grandma) who was also waiting to be seen said “let her lay down and see her before you see me” and other people there waiting started to speak up. I was quiet but crying. I don’t know what my husband was doing - I don’t remember - but he was a captain or major and in uniform so just so you know it doesn’t matter whether you’re an officer or enlisted… They got me into an exam room and the ob gyn doctor came in and said she had been in surgery (not apologizing but explaining). They took me into surgery, said they would try to save the baby but the baby had never made it to the womb and was stuck in the tube. So I had lost a lot of blood in the abdomen - I think it was about 2 liters. I was home, off work, for a month because I had lost a lot of blood and they didn’t want to do a blood transfusion because it was 1992 or 3 and the blood was possibly tainted with AIDS or something like that. But anyway. I’m as white as you can be. My husband was present. We both speak English - this was a military hospital and my husband was an officer. Sometimes demographics don’t matter. We are just gonna have to accept that not everyone in the medical environment knows how to triage or what to do. And some of those people don’t really care.

The hospital that is 1 mile from my house used to be the best hospital in the state. It was taken over by Penn Highlands and it's no longer about quality care. Extremely sad. My daughter had COVID and was puking for weeks. We went to the emergency room one day and we were sitting there (knowing she had COVID) in a normal waiting room for over 9 hours. We went home and went back the next day and another 8 hours and we left. Day 3 we were there over 8 hours and they finally got her back. Her blood work showed starvation levels from all the puking. She has a rare genetic disease and was life flighted. This is how bad she was and we couldn't even triaged the first 2 days. When they admitted her, she was dying. The hospitalist wouldn't call her geneticist ( I don't know why ...ego??) and finally I called and that doctor made it happen to have her life flighted to Pittsburgh and she was better in 24 hours. The damage done I'm so bitter about though. I come from a family full of doctors and nurses so we are excellent patients. This hospital has went down hill

The emergency room doctor I had gave me morphine for my severe intestinal pain. Never checked for infection or anything. The pain was unbearable. The morphine wasn’t working. The emergency doctor told me to stop complaining, so “everyone could get on with their lives.” My sister demanded this hospital take me to a different hospital. She knew something terrible was wrong because I never complain about anything. When I got to the second hospital they realized I needed emergency surgery to remove my colon. I almost died in the first hospital. Thank God my sister was with me! Thank you for your VERY important video! I hope a lot of people see your video because it will save lives! 🥰

I was very lucky when I showed up with severe sepsis at the emergency room 2 days after gall bladder surgery that my gastroenterologist was working at the hospital at the time. He knew that I had had gall bladder surgery a few days before. He suspected I had a bile leak and was septic. He immediately had me put on fluids and antibiotics. The last thing I remember was going to the operating room get the bile leak fixed and woke up on a ventilator a week later. I was in the ICU for about 3 weeks. Luckily I didn't lose any extremities, only some hair later. The actual surgeon who did the gall bladder surgery was very arrogant and said that I needed to get out of bed and start walking. Never mind that I had lost quite a bit of muscle mass and physically could not walk yet. My gastro was standing behind the surgeon and rolled his eyes. Later he told me that he felt the surgeon was out of his depth when things go wrong and it was going to take some time to get my strength back. I found out later that the mortality rate for this type of sepsis is 72%. Having antibiotics and fluids administered in the first few hours after I arrived saved my life.

I have both a mental health history and several autoimmune immune disorders. Any time a medical professional can’t run a standard test and get a simple answer, they blame either condition for the problem.