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Couple of days ago the wife calls from work, a hospital mind you, and says come pick me up I really dont feel well. I make appropriate arrangement at work and screw. She tells me on the phone she is going to the Good Sam emergency room. She WORKS AT THE MORTON HOSPITRAL, but she has to go to the Good Sam, because our doctor has priviledges there, not at the hospital she works.

We get to the ER and I never saw so many sick people in my life. Just after we sign up I hear the lady say six hour minimum wait to see a doctor. I almost chit. It took us two more hours to just register. Wife says to me go home and I'll call you when I'm ready. Something like that occurred once before when she went to the oncologist because it was on her way home instead of coming to get me first and then going. We got some very bad news that day, but that was then and this is now.

Anyway, we sign in at 2 p.m., register at 4 p.m., and get called in to the E.R. at 8 p.m. To make a long story short she got sick the first week of December, same old sinus stuff we thought. Her/our doctor treats her over the course of the next eleven weeks with seven other anti-biotics that never made anything clear up. Two days after each script was done she felt like you know what again. She had blood tests and chest xray as a matter of routine before seeing E.R. doctor. We explained her course of treatment over the last couple of months and also her having a wisdom tooth out a week ago. We figured at that point that was the problem. Continually reoccurring infection under a tooth where some food had lodged.

No, the wisdom tooth did needs to come out, but the source of her problem was the friekin pnuemonia she has had since December her physician negelected to check for with a simple xray. I mean hey what the hell, seven scripts for various meds that didn't take care of her "cold".

The post script to this is new primary physician will be south this week. And it may have been inordinately busy, busy the employees of the hospital were great to us and everyone else. I felt bad for all the people by themselves with no one to turn too. By the way the turnaround see a doctor wait the day before was 17 hours.