The original article read: (July 14, 2007)

"Got a headache?"
That is what the emergency room nurse asked me very sarcastically, not even knowing why I was there.
The mannerisms in the emergency room in today's society have really gone downhill. There isn't any politeness or courtesy extended to the potential patient. There also isn't any consideration to the temperature of the rooms in which you wait. The rooms are always cold! We are told that the doctor will be right with us... yeah, an hour or two later. Yet, no one seems to take a stand against any of this and we are the ones paying outrageous hospital bills. Concerns about misdiagnosing or even NO diagnosis are a high priority any more. Whatever happened to the Hippocratic Oath?
August 25, 2007 11:03 pm EST
This article was originally posted in my view of what I experienced with my best friend as she approached the emergency room desk with the nurse at the desk. At the time my friend asked me not to use her name in the article and we decided the best thing was to put it as if it were me. My friend had been complaining to various doctors and hospitals that she had a severe pain in her stomach. None of the doctors or hospitals would listen to her. One said doctor even placed her on the drug-seeking list. On August 10, 2007, she passed out in a physician's office and was rushed to one of the hospitals that told her that there was nothing wrong. Tonight, August 25, 2007 at 11:03 pm, she passed away. Now all of the sudden, they realized she was not drug seeking, that something was seriously wrong. DUH! Had the original doctors and hospitals listened to what she was trying to say all along for four painful years, she might still be alive. Therefore, I ask you: How long does a doctor have to go to school in order to ignore what the patient is actually telling them. All this time my friend was begging for help and no one was listening. I hope this opens some people's eyes that doctors are not all they are cracked up to be.

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