Only if they do what? I duno what the fuck you are saying.

I don't know too much of the medical lingo. What's a 1.8 Tesla Magnet?

No I think I said:

The difference between lay people and me is I can go to Cecils, Harrison or MD Consult to get my answers when my child's sick--if I had a child ;)

Moreover, I have the phone numbers of several physicians to run down their symptoms and can get "scripts" relatively easily.

As far as care entitlement, one is entitled to stabilization of their condition. I don't know? An emergency room physician would be a better person to ask. But, you cannot get quality of care through the emergency simply because in that situation there are other patients whose health situations are worse--like gun shot to the head victims... A tear in the bowels will not be known until blood, urine and fecal matter is lab tested before full treatment. Depending on that particular day, the patient can wait in the waiting room area or they can go home. Patients are free to decide their healthcare...

How much power a magnet can pull and how far through the tissue one can detect.

GE, Phillips and Siemens make MRI in full detail.

This is slightly off on a tangent. Awhile back I had read an article on msn.com (can't find it now :mad::(). It was about the differences in men's and women's health and specific things women should be aware of and vigilant about. One of the things they mentioned in the article is that there is still sometimes an old-fashioned tendency to take men's pain more seriously and to dismiss women's pain as "oh she's just being hysterical/whiny/over-dramatic/exagerating/difficult/etc". When I read the first couple sentences of the article about the woman who died, I thought about the msn.com article. Perhaps, the staff thought "oh she's not really in that much pain, she's just complaining for attention or to be difficult". Not saying that the staff ignoring her was right, but this could be a possible explanation for how they could have let her yell for help for 90 minutes without doing anything.

You are right. The measurement of pain and distress is hard to gage in patients when they suffer. The key for patients and their loved ones is to give immediate metrics when they are in pain. It is very hard for people who suffer though.

Usually, you state when the pain started, how long you have been having the pain, what if feels like and where it is. They staff undergoes several tests then send you on your way...

This is the key: maybe they should have not sent her on her way...

Agreed. After my bowel resection surgery, I was telling the nurse that the pain was a 10 and I needed more pain meds. She called my surgeon who said "Those Crohn's patients always think they are in pain, she's ok". THEN she called my gastro, who knew me well and had been treating me for a long time who told the nurse "This woman is a rock and refuses pain meds all the time, if she says she needs more, she needs more" and gave an order for a different med. It's important to have *someone* who knows your situation going to bat for you! But, my gastro knew the level of pain I'd been living with on a daily basis too.

It does sound like they didn't do quite enough to seek out what was causing the pain for this woman. I'm probably feeling more sympathetic toward her because I could see something like that happening to me before I was diagnosed with the Crohn's. Now, I think just saying "Crohn's" would cause them to check out more stuff if I went to ER with abdominal pain.

Realistically, if she died from being septic that quickly, she probably would have died anyway. She probably would still be undergoing diagnostics after a few hours and it's not easy to find a bowel perforation.

story on MSN.com today.
 

Woman dies in ER lobby as 911 refuses to help
Tapes show operators ignored pleas to send ambulance to L.A. hospital

LOS ANGELES - A woman who lay bleeding on the emergency room floor of a troubled inner-city hospital died after 911 dispatchers refused to contact paramedics or an ambulance to take her to another facility, newly released tapes of the emergency calls reveal.

Edith Isabel Rodriguez, 43, died of a perforated bowel on May 9 at Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital. Her death was ruled accidental by the Los Angeles County coroner’s office.

Relatives said Rodriguez was bleeding from the mouth and writhing in pain for 45 minutes while she was at a hospital waiting area. Experts have said she could have survived had she been treated early enough.

Read the rest....http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19207050/?GT1=10056 includes video

I heard about this on the news today! This was too sad, I don't understand what was going on w/ the hospital staff. I can't believe this happened. So tragic!

i agree, not one person knows your body like you do. as a mother, i can tell when it is one of those emergency room visit type of illnesses. i always call the nurse/doctor on call before anything drastic. several times i have saved $ and time by communicating with professionals before doing anything drastic in a panic.