Reply #6: I went to a quiet, unbusy emergency room. I had no insurance.

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I was vomiting uncontrollably and dehydrated from a sinus infection. I sat in a wheelchair and barfed. There were other people waiting but nothing urgent. They checked me in but I waited 3 hours. They never put me in a room. I got my hubby to go buttonhole nurses standing around, to tell them to please treat me because I was suffering. The other people in the waiting room were visibly upset by the horrible loud noises I was making. I sounded like I was dying. I could have had a stroke from the high blood pressure.

They did nothing.

They were ignoring me.

After three hours of my agony we went to another emergency room where I was seen and treated promptly. I did not have any insurance, but at the second hospital they asked me what to do and I told them the usual procedure they did when I was that sick.

They treated me without asking me if I had insurance or not at the 2nd hospital. These were both suburban hospitals that were not very busy. At the second one I was in enough pain from my barfing that they gave me Demerol and an antibiotic shot and a cortisone shot.