Quote Originally Posted by starkvegasdawg34 View Post
Mods, feel free to move this. I just wanted it here to get some quick visibility.

I got a text from my mom saying she has been up all night nauseous and severe abdominal pain. She went to the ER at 9:00 this morning. As of 2:00 she is still sitting in the same 17ing chair that she sat down in 5 hours earlier with no hint of seeing a doctor. I won't mention the hospital yet but it is a delta town on Highway 82. Is that kind of wait now par for the course or is this just gross incompetence? I told her to walk out the door and go across the street and call an ambulance but she said she's now too weak to do that.
Nausea and abdominal pain generally isn't a life threatening emergency. It sucks but an ER is supposed to treat those first. She might have been better served going to her family doctor, esp at 9AM.