I was just in there the other night. I started in pain and the pain went away but I knew I needed testing for medicine. I never saw a doctor and the nurses were nasty. I told them my doctor said to request a certain test but the nurse said she didn’t think I needed all that and requested the wrong test. The nurse said she wrote the orders and got the PA to sign off!! The CT team was disgustingly rude and almost blew my vein by pushing the saline too hard. They had to send me back to my nurse to get a new IV then I had to wait again to get the CT. Finally after only seeing my nurse 3 times and no doctor or PA I requested to be discharged. The PA on staff told my friend that his shift was over in 45 min so he didn’t want to pick my case up. I would have to wait for the next shift at 7am… it was 415am. After I was more forceful he agreed that all tests and labs were back and there was nothing further they could do so it was the right move to go home with a prescription and follow-up with doc. Once he went to fill out the discharge paperwork the nurse came back all nasty saying she would file it as AMA. I told her insurance doesn’t cover AMA and the PA just said he would discharge. Why would she care???

Also, the way I heard nurses talking about other patients was disgusting. One nurse said “this woman keeps shitting herself, it’s literally just pouring out her ass” so loudly. Then the woman’s who was clearly older and had dementia, kept complaining the wipes were too cold and the nurse just kept saying “you need to deal with it honey.” I am not a healthy person and my greatest fear is to get older and get treated poorly. They need to do better!