I have a clip-on meter for oxygen levels - it takes a minute or less and I’m sure they put one on her and found sufficient oxygen. I would be surprised if they hadn’t done that. It’s entirely possible for the clot to be unrelated to her original complaint and to have occurred suddenly. My uncle, a pathologist, died…

I’ve had this fight with so many US citizens, and it always ends with them basically screaming “BOOTSTRAPS” and that people should work somewhere with better insurance because otherwise it’s their own fault for being mentally ill and I just do not get how they can be so willfully stupid.

It said in one article that she had an oxygen tank of her own for chronic lung issues. But if they checked her pulse ox and it was fine, they wouldn’t have put her on oxygen. We have people saying they’re dehydrated when their lab tests say otherwise, that they can’t breathe when their pulse ox says otherwise. If you…

Not to mention if she was yelling loudly as it states she was, it would not have been indicative of a PE at the time. Even if she was still an admitted pt, they probably wouldn’t have caught it in time. Those things are sneaky-ass bastards.

I work in an ER in a biggish city, where we do get a handful of patients that will come regularly and we know go from hospital to hospital in the surrounding area. For patients that we have to call security or police for, it’s usually because things will escalate quickly, they’ll become verbal or physically aggressive…

The US traded mental health treatment for the prison industrial complex decades ago.

My cousin had one found after he cut his hand and went to the emergency room. Thank goodness he did or otherwise it could have killed him.

*Pharmaceutical panaceas and mass incarceration. Prisons and jails are far and away the biggest providers of mental health care in the U.S.

Except that we know she complained of breathing difficulty because the story states she was demanding oxygen.

I pay $3k a year for my insurance. Every year in November or December I get to a point where the amount my insurance company has paid out becomes greater than $3k. I feel so successful!

We get frequent flyers who come in so many times with nothing ever found on extensive testing, but they always demand pain meds. Sometimes when denied these pain meds, they get verbally and/or physically abusive. If we try to discharge a patient and they refuse to leave and are abusive towards staff, we call security…

I work in an ER, one that serves primarily an underserved/minority patient population (and whose staff generally chose that population to serve). We do occasionally have to call the police for aggressive/threatening patients, but you better be damned sure they’re healthy before you kick them out (that’s why difficult…

No worries!! I have insurance! You know the kind of insurance that I have to pay for here that doesn’t even cover a fucking pap smear. The kind of insurance that gives me a rage stroke everytime I pay it even though said paid insurance wouldn’t pay for the god damn rage stroke.

That’s cool, just remember not to burst your appendix unless you’re back home visiting the fam.

A mixed race (Asian/white) friend was often identified by others as either “Mexican” or “Indian.” This became a huge problem when he was dying of liver disease because so many of his health care providers clearly saw him as just another drunk Indian. While it shouldn’t have mattered, they couldn’t even be bothered to…

I don’t disagree with anything you said. If you asked why I’m friends with her it is more to do with a similar hobby and she can be smart and funny. She is also though involved in an emotionally abusive relationship and I try and give support. In the end though I realize that her views are so polar opposite from mine…

Not about blacks but about Native Americans. Abuse about the system and how she has to spend needless hours dealing with people who don’t really need help.

If by mental health you mean more guns?

My spouse is a doctor and frequently has to call security or threaten it due to unruly patients demanding things that are medically impossible (or sexually harassing the nursing staff). So sometimes. But it surely depends on the area.

As far as I know, they have a duty of care that involves at least examining people when they say they’re sick. I’m not sure if it’s the law though.