華美子

My experience with the emergency room services in Richmond Hospital was not bad at all.

First time was sent by ambulance.  Although I waited for 6 hours in bed but the paramedics always attend to me for that 6 hours.  I ended up having an operation done that night.

Second time I went there was in the middle of the night.  I was lucky enough that there were no one waiting in the reception and I only had to wait for 15 minutes.  A nurse was with me all the time and after the treatment a paramedic was helping me out and he even told jokes to make me feel better.

Third time was during the day.  There were lots of people waiting and I had to wait for 2 to 3 hours.  Everything went smoothly.  No one gave me any hard time.

I am not sure about other people's experience with the hospital here.  I think some medical staff do have temper after working under stress for such a long time, and some staff are just sick of people abusing the emergency services.  I remember the second time when I was in the emergency room there was an old lady next to me.  she kept whinning of her back problem and she didn't want to move a bit when the nurse helped her to change her diaper (that old lady was more than 200 lbs).  The nurse was mad at her because she knows the old lady was just over react.

[ 本帖最後由 華美子 於 2008-7-4 12:50 編輯 ]