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01-07-20, 04:25 PM
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I left.
Let me explain, the term “it was insane“ is routinely overused in society, but that ER was nothing short of that, totally insane. I had to keep looking around me to make sure I wasn’t in a third world country or something. I notified the triage nurse that I was leaving and while discussing she conceded this was an unusually bad day. The PA agreed. The cat-scan technician did also. I wanted to take a picture of the place but that would have been immoral, there were sick people lined up everywhere, standing room only. I couldn’t take it anymore, I was suffering too much and the people coming in were sicker than me, crying and moaning and you name it. I would have been there til 10 o’clock.
I’ll take my chances and see a neurologist Thursday or so. I’ll alternate Tylenol and Ibu as needed til then. If I’m lucky it may even go away as it usually does for the rest of the year.
Let me explain, the term “it was insane“ is routinely overused in society, but that ER was nothing short of that, totally insane. I had to keep looking around me to make sure I wasn’t in a third world country or something. I notified the triage nurse that I was leaving and while discussing she conceded this was an unusually bad day. The PA agreed. The cat-scan technician did also. I wanted to take a picture of the place but that would have been immoral, there were sick people lined up everywhere, standing room only. I couldn’t take it anymore, I was suffering too much and the people coming in were sicker than me, crying and moaning and you name it. I would have been there til 10 o’clock.
I’ll take my chances and see a neurologist Thursday or so. I’ll alternate Tylenol and Ibu as needed til then. If I’m lucky it may even go away as it usually does for the rest of the year.
Feel free to not respond, but what "neruological" concerns did urgent care find that made them push the panic button??
01-07-20, 04:27 PM
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BTW I closely follow the influenza reports that the CDC and my state health dept put out weekly, and the influenza activity in the Northeast is very high this past week and likely peaking this week or next week. I am not surprised if the ER and urgent care places are inundated with sick people above and beyond their usual background numbers.
01-07-20, 04:45 PM
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BTW I closely follow the influenza reports that the CDC and my state health dept put out weekly, and the influenza activity in the Northeast is very high this past week and likely peaking this week or next week. I am not surprised if the ER and urgent care places are inundated with sick people above and beyond their usual background numbers.
01-07-20, 04:52 PM
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Get better, Billy. If anyone is going to get stabbed with an ice pick, it should at least come with an early 90's Sharon Stone.
01-07-20, 05:03 PM
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I left.
Let me explain, the term “it was insane“ is routinely overused in society, but that ER was nothing short of that, totally insane. I had to keep looking around me to make sure I wasn’t in a third world country or something. I notified the triage nurse that I was leaving and while discussing she conceded this was an unusually bad day. The PA agreed. The cat-scan technician did also. I wanted to take a picture of the place but that would have been immoral, there were sick people lined up everywhere, standing room only. I couldn’t take it anymore, I was suffering too much and the people coming in were sicker than me, crying and moaning and you name it. I would have been there til 10 o’clock.
I’ll take my chances and see a neurologist Thursday or so. I’ll alternate Tylenol and Ibu as needed til then. If I’m lucky it may even go away as it usually does for the rest of the year.
Let me explain, the term “it was insane“ is routinely overused in society, but that ER was nothing short of that, totally insane. I had to keep looking around me to make sure I wasn’t in a third world country or something. I notified the triage nurse that I was leaving and while discussing she conceded this was an unusually bad day. The PA agreed. The cat-scan technician did also. I wanted to take a picture of the place but that would have been immoral, there were sick people lined up everywhere, standing room only. I couldn’t take it anymore, I was suffering too much and the people coming in were sicker than me, crying and moaning and you name it. I would have been there til 10 o’clock.
I’ll take my chances and see a neurologist Thursday or so. I’ll alternate Tylenol and Ibu as needed til then. If I’m lucky it may even go away as it usually does for the rest of the year.
01-07-20, 05:03 PM
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01-07-20, 05:09 PM
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I had to get out of there, the place was depressing yet the staff kept plowing ahead doing their job. Much props to those folks and their professionalism. I’m going to write a letter of praise.
EDIT: My bad, the UC doctor did have a specific concern of an aneurysm. I forgot that.
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01-07-20, 05:13 PM
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I appreciate all the support, guys. 
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01-07-20, 05:15 PM
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I left.
Let me explain, the term “it was insane“ is routinely overused in society, but that ER was nothing short of that, totally insane. I had to keep looking around me to make sure I wasn’t in a third world country or something. I notified the triage nurse that I was leaving and while discussing she conceded this was an unusually bad day. The PA agreed. The cat-scan technician did also. I wanted to take a picture of the place but that would have been immoral, there were sick people lined up everywhere, standing room only. I couldn’t take it anymore, I was suffering too much and the people coming in were sicker than me, crying and moaning and you name it. I would have been there til 10 o’clock.
I’ll take my chances and see a neurologist Thursday or so. I’ll alternate Tylenol and Ibu as needed til then. If I’m lucky it may even go away as it usually does for the rest of the year.
Let me explain, the term “it was insane“ is routinely overused in society, but that ER was nothing short of that, totally insane. I had to keep looking around me to make sure I wasn’t in a third world country or something. I notified the triage nurse that I was leaving and while discussing she conceded this was an unusually bad day. The PA agreed. The cat-scan technician did also. I wanted to take a picture of the place but that would have been immoral, there were sick people lined up everywhere, standing room only. I couldn’t take it anymore, I was suffering too much and the people coming in were sicker than me, crying and moaning and you name it. I would have been there til 10 o’clock.
I’ll take my chances and see a neurologist Thursday or so. I’ll alternate Tylenol and Ibu as needed til then. If I’m lucky it may even go away as it usually does for the rest of the year.
My unsolicited advice would be to pick the academic center in NYC that’s the least onerous to get to (almost certainly Columbia) and make an appointment at their headache clinic in order to be armed for the next cluster.
01-07-20, 05:20 PM
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She didn’t specify, I think she considered there were too many possibilities for her to pursue. Plus, when you state your pain level is a 9 that probably pushes some buttons. At the ER, both the PA and triage nurse said the fact I stated this was the worst headache I ever had was a red flag for them. Yet as the hours slipped by I had regrets that calling it a headache at all may have pushed me to the back burner.
I had to get out of there, the place was depressing yet the staff kept plowing ahead doing their job. Much props to those folks and their professionalism. I’m going to write a letter of praise.
EDIT: My bad, the UC doctor did have a specific concern of an aneurysm. I forgot that.
I had to get out of there, the place was depressing yet the staff kept plowing ahead doing their job. Much props to those folks and their professionalism. I’m going to write a letter of praise.
EDIT: My bad, the UC doctor did have a specific concern of an aneurysm. I forgot that.
01-07-20, 05:23 PM
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01-07-20, 05:35 PM
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01-07-20, 05:54 PM
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01-07-20, 06:01 PM
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I left.
Let me explain, the term “it was insane“ is routinely overused in society, but that ER was nothing short of that, totally insane. I had to keep looking around me to make sure I wasn’t in a third world country or something. I notified the triage nurse that I was leaving and while discussing she conceded this was an unusually bad day. The PA agreed. The cat-scan technician did also. I wanted to take a picture of the place but that would have been immoral, there were sick people lined up everywhere, standing room only. I couldn’t take it anymore, I was suffering too much and the people coming in were sicker than me, crying and moaning and you name it. I would have been there til 10 o’clock.
I’ll take my chances and see a neurologist Thursday or so. I’ll alternate Tylenol and Ibu as needed til then. If I’m lucky it may even go away as it usually does for the rest of the year.
Let me explain, the term “it was insane“ is routinely overused in society, but that ER was nothing short of that, totally insane. I had to keep looking around me to make sure I wasn’t in a third world country or something. I notified the triage nurse that I was leaving and while discussing she conceded this was an unusually bad day. The PA agreed. The cat-scan technician did also. I wanted to take a picture of the place but that would have been immoral, there were sick people lined up everywhere, standing room only. I couldn’t take it anymore, I was suffering too much and the people coming in were sicker than me, crying and moaning and you name it. I would have been there til 10 o’clock.
I’ll take my chances and see a neurologist Thursday or so. I’ll alternate Tylenol and Ibu as needed til then. If I’m lucky it may even go away as it usually does for the rest of the year.
01-07-20, 06:03 PM
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My theory is that they all hate the cold weather, since they all dress PHX style: 70°, time to put on a hoodie
01-07-20, 06:10 PM
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01-07-20, 06:12 PM
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Edit: I now guess you were referring to the state of the ER and yes, that is a shame and the product of a horribly dysfunctional system.
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01-07-20, 06:18 PM
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I left.
Let me explain, the term “it was insane“ is routinely overused in society, but that ER was nothing short of that, totally insane. I had to keep looking around me to make sure I wasn’t in a third world country or something. I notified the triage nurse that I was leaving and while discussing she conceded this was an unusually bad day. The PA agreed. The cat-scan technician did also. I wanted to take a picture of the place but that would have been immoral, there were sick people lined up everywhere, standing room only. I couldn’t take it anymore, I was suffering too much and the people coming in were sicker than me, crying and moaning and you name it. I would have been there til 10 o’clock.
I’ll take my chances and see a neurologist Thursday or so. I’ll alternate Tylenol and Ibu as needed til then. If I’m lucky it may even go away as it usually does for the rest of the year.
Let me explain, the term “it was insane“ is routinely overused in society, but that ER was nothing short of that, totally insane. I had to keep looking around me to make sure I wasn’t in a third world country or something. I notified the triage nurse that I was leaving and while discussing she conceded this was an unusually bad day. The PA agreed. The cat-scan technician did also. I wanted to take a picture of the place but that would have been immoral, there were sick people lined up everywhere, standing room only. I couldn’t take it anymore, I was suffering too much and the people coming in were sicker than me, crying and moaning and you name it. I would have been there til 10 o’clock.
I’ll take my chances and see a neurologist Thursday or so. I’ll alternate Tylenol and Ibu as needed til then. If I’m lucky it may even go away as it usually does for the rest of the year.
01-07-20, 06:24 PM
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Much as I hate to say it, and his suffering notwithstanding, there was nothing really wrong with the care BillyD received and no emergency medicine system in the world is prepared to deal with headache intelligently.
01-07-20, 06:24 PM
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Don't call me since I dont know sh*t about anything and have a lousy bedside manner. Of course, you can always call if you want to hear about my awesome shovel.
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01-07-20, 06:26 PM
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BTW I closely follow the influenza reports that the CDC and my state health dept put out weekly, and the influenza activity in the Northeast is very high this past week and likely peaking this week or next week. I am not surprised if the ER and urgent care places are inundated with sick people above and beyond their usual background numbers.
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01-07-20, 06:29 PM
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01-07-20, 06:41 PM
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I don't do flu shots, every time I have gotten the flu, I had the shot.
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