Is it normal that the er treated me like this?

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Okay, so, I went to the ER about a month ago because I had been (and still am really,) having trouble using the bathroom (Passing stool.)

It was so bad that I hadn't passed anything in over a week,
and well, I had tried stool softerns and such, but nothing seemed to be working.

To make things worse, I reached up inside and tried to remove the stool manually, but it was like a large, hard mass of poop was lodged up in there, preventing anything from passing through.

The term for that is Fecal Impaction, which is pretty serious.
I've heard of people dying from not being able to pass stool over a certain time.

Time's have been rough, so I didn't have a normal doctor to go to at that point in time, so my only source of help was to go to the hospital and seek help.

However, right away, they didn't seem to want to help me.
They said that it wasn't a "life threatening" situation, and treated me as if they didn't care about what I had to say about it.

They said that they could check to see if it was impaction, but guess what? They never did that for me, and they didn't even give me an X-Ray.

Plus, they said that my insurance wouldn't cover it, so they wouldn't do anything to help, so basically, all they cared about was getting paid.

So, I left there with zero help, not to mention in pain.

Is it right for me to be mad?

Yes, I would be mad too. 15
SUE THEM! 11
No, they did nothing wrong. 4
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  • Parky_Parker
    8 years ago | pl

    Sometimes people go to the ER because they can't set an appointment with their primary care physician soon enough and they should know that. Maybe you should try an urgent care instead.

    Unfortunately, where I live, a lot of hospitals have worthless employees too. They can barely meet their job requirements. God forbid they try and help someone. And don't you dare interrupt them if they happen to be on their smartphone. -_-

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  • CrimsonEye
    8 years ago

    Doctors are not there to help you. It's a profession. Like all professions you have to pay. And that Hippocratic oath has been changed over time and it means shit to these devilish docs.

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  • victorygin
    8 years ago

    That's not right, and I would be mad too. Sounds like you were prepared to wait or do whatever you had to, but they weren't willing to do anything, even dispense advice.

    And I'll bet your mostly pissed off because of how they treated you and spoke to you. If they had some legitimate reasons and said openly "this is how it works, this is why we can't treat you", you'd probably understand to a point. But when they treat you with suspicion and don't care about your welfare at all, that is frustrating.

    (If it happens again though, jethro is definitely right about the enema, or coffee enema even). It's much better than the other.

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  • jethro
    8 years ago

    I am a little confused. You say you have insurance but no "normal" doctor. I don't know where you call home, but I had to select a primary care physician when I enrolled in my insurance plan. That would be my "normal" doctor, as you call them. Also we have things called Urgent Care Facilities. They are used in lieu of emergency rooms. People use ER's because it is sometimes an easy way to get painkillers. The ER's are busy and there are more important issues in one than someone that is constipated. Try using an enema that will move it along. Drink more water, eat more fiber and get off heroin (or whatever your opiate of choice is) and your chronic constipation will go away.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      8 years ago

      First of all: Fuck you for suggesting that I am on drugs.
      Second, I don't live in a big town, so, we don't have many normal doctors and usually, they are no new openings for new patients. One place isn't accepting new patients until August, and when my problem happened, that was back in June.

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