Wait time at LSU

[Pocahontas]

Are you still having chest pains Pie? Why don't you go to another hospital emergency room or that walkin clinic? Do they refuse you if you don't have insurance even if it's something as serious as a heart attack?? I really don't know.

[Isaac-Saxxon]

Artist: The Robert Cray Band
Album: Too Many Cooks
Year: 1990
Title: When The Welfare Turns Its Back On You

Now whatcha gonna do
When the welfare turn it's back on you?
Whatcha gonna do
When the welfare turn it's back on you?
You'll be standin' there stranded
And there won't be a thing you can do

Now you look all through your house, yeah
Yes, and you can't even find a piece of bread
You look all through your house, I know you do
Yes, you can't even find a piece of bread
I sometimes begin to wonder, yeah
Yes, if you'd be better off, be better off dead

Lord have mercy

(Guitar solo)

You have to go down to the welfare
Every month to report
And some of the things they say to you
Will sure enough get your goat
If you tell them that you're sick
You better have a bad cough, lord have mercy
Cause if you don't, they'll be ready to throw you off,
When The Welfare Turns Its Back On You
I know they will

Whatcha gonna do, lord have mercy
When the welfare turns its back on you?
Yeah, you'll be standin' there stranded
Yeah, and there ain't a thing that you can do

[piemaker720]

Originally Posted by Pocahontas

Are you still having chest pains Pie? Why don't you go to another hospital emergency room or that walkin clinic? Do they refuse you if you don't have insurance even if it's something as serious as a heart attack?? I really don't know.

Yes I am still hurting but I hope mine is a pulled muscle or something. I don't know. But if you go to other hospitals or clinics all they will do is stablize you untill they can send you to LSU.

[Pocahontas]

Do you or someone you know, know a doctor that you could call and ask personally what in the heck you should do in case it's NOT a pulled muscle? Be cautious Pie!

[piemaker720]

Originally Posted by Pocahontas

Do you or someone you know, know a doctor that you could call and ask personally what in the heck you should do in case it's NOT a pulled muscle? Be cautious Pie!

I will. I promise.

[Texasbelle]

First of all let me say that ALL of the emergency rooms in the area are used by most people as a place to be seen for matters that should be taken care of in a normal physicians office. This is the biggest problem which causes people like you Pie to have to wait when what you are experiencing is potentially a true emergency. The lady with the elevated blood sugar is probably a chronic diabetic who is not taking her medicine regularly. She probably is not showing up for her regular appointments with the Internal Medicine clinic as she should and probably not taking care of herself as she should.

There is nothing LSU can do to decrease the wait time that they have not already tried. They only have so many physicians and residents to go around. Your one option you didn't try was to head outside to the parking lot, drive down the road say to Taco Bell, dial 911, and tell them you think you are having a heart attack and suffering by chest pains. When you are brought in by ambulance, you are taken straight into the ER, to the back with the doctors, and they have to do something.

Now all that being said, the thing you need to do is head early early in the morning to the Internal Medicine Clinic or Walk in whatever and being the wait to be seen. Your chest pain needs to be addressed. Many women suffer silently from heart disease meaning that you could have a heart attack and not know it, etc .

[piemaker720]

Originally Posted by Texasbelle

First of all let me say that ALL of the emergency rooms in the area are used by most people as a place to be seen for matters that should be taken care of in a normal physicians office. This is the biggest problem which causes people like you Pie to have to wait when what you are experiencing is potentially a true emergency. The lady with the elevated blood sugar is probably a chronic diabetic who is not taking her medicine regularly. She probably is not showing up for her regular appointments with the Internal Medicine clinic as she should and probably not taking care of herself as she should.

There is nothing LSU can do to decrease the wait time that they have not already tried. They only have so many physicians and residents to go around. Your one option you didn't try was to head outside to the parking lot, drive down the road say to Taco Bell, dial 911, and tell them you think you are having a heart attack and suffering by chest pains. When you are brought in by ambulance, you are taken straight into the ER, to the back with the doctors, and they have to do something.

Now all that being said, the thing you need to do is head early early in the morning to the Internal Medicine Clinic or Walk in whatever and being the wait to be seen. Your chest pain needs to be addressed. Many women suffer silently from heart disease meaning that you could have a heart attack and not know it, etc .

When I was there a nurse told us that all the beds were taken up in the ER by people waiting to be admitted upstairs and that they only had two beds they were working out of. They were being taken by people coming in helicopters and by ambulance. They need a place were they can hold people without tying the ER up. I had went to go to fast trac, which is like a walk in clinic. But when you register the nurse decides if you go there or the ER. I have been to other ER's before and the wait time is never that bad.