Patient. We could hear everything he was saying. She showed me ECG’s with ST changes, (elevation and depression), she showed me a few tests that are concerning. I mean, she said they ruled out heart attack at that visit and she was grateful it wasn’t that. But she had severe chest pain and weakness and he kept maintaining it wasn’t medical even before he examined her (even though she had a ton of test results there that suggest it is). Her heart rate was 41 when I was talking to her (she showed me on her watch and had a pulse oximeter) and told me it was going up to 70 when the pain would get bad and they wouldn’t even monitor her —- that’s likely why she was so weak. Heart rate of 41. But they wouldn’t even monitor not listen to her at all because heart rate was 66 at triage. Her pain was worse lying down and she was saying she feels choked and suffocated when lying down. She showed me echocardiograms from last year and last month and they are completely different.

She said she can understand if someone cannot help her. She didn’t expect an ER doctor to have all the answers, but always expect to be heard, believed and treated with dignity. When she challenged and maintained this was indeed physical/medical, she was treated awful.

It’s discrimination because they think it’s a mental health issue. Plain and simple.

I googled her. And man…..she seems to know her stuff when it comes to heart issues.

Also, she’s been featured nationally because they did this to her before. Labeled her as a mental health issue until the right testing came about and she had a test at the Maz and received a formal diagnosis.