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My dad got really sick/dizzy today and was throwing up all over the place non stop. I ended up driving him to the hospital and waited in there for 8 hours (there was like a total of 1 doctor on Christmas night). it turns out that it was just an infection and he got the stomach bug or something.
The ironic part was that I pretty much had the EXACT same symptoms/illness a year ago. I ended up throwing up at work and went home early. I was feeling super shitty and queasy on my hour train ride home and all the seats on the trains were taken up. Just when I was about to collapse and sit/lie down on the dirty ass floor, some stranger asked me if I was sick and offered me her seat. I swear I never felt so grateful to another human being in my life. I just ended up quietly sobbing for the next 45 minutes on the train because I felt so shitty, thankful and shameful (I NEVER ask for help... in pretty much anything... also fuck you to the middle age Chinese couple who basically pushed me aside and ninja my seat right when I was about to sit down just so they can play their shitty iphone games together).
When I got to my station I called my dad to come pick me up and he's like wtf, go walk, I just got back home from a long hard day of work, so I ended up calling my cousin to pick me up. I get home and walk through the door and my dad is like wtf why are you crying like a bitch? and I tell him I'm sick. I get a huge lecture about wearing more clothes/eating properly/etc while I'm puking my guts out.
Oh that and my parents knowingly gave me shitty, NASTY, EXPIRED (by 2 years) chinese medicine. They gave it to me, I took it and instantly felt worse. We have a tendency to store a lot of expired/old medicine in the house so I took a look at the label and saw that it was indeed expired. I fucking raged and smack the bottle off the desk and onto the floor. They get pissed at me because they thought that I was being an ungrateful bitch and I'm raging that they knowingly gave me expired medicine.
Why the fuck would you fucking give me expired medicine? I'm like dying here and you're KNOWINGLY giving me these expired shit.
"Expired medicine never hurt anyone and the worst it can do is make you feel the same."
FML
Also my parents tried to get me to the hospital that night too but I absolutely refused. Hospitals (imo) are for serious injuries and I fucking hate doctors. I ended up giving in and I went to a doctor the following morning and sure enough the bullshit doctor diagnose me with the stomach bug after taking 2 minutes to look at me. He also tells me that my heartbeat is irregular and I'm dehydrated (no shit, I basically puked everything I ate/drank non stop for the past 24 hours) and makes me take an EKG.
The sad part is that the EKG is an elaborate trick. I have medicaid and the EKG is a really simple, non-invasive procedure/test to administer and they tell EVERYONE they need an EKG so they can charge the shit out of your insurance for basically a 5 minute test that any nurse can administer.
... and this is why I hate doctors. I'm feeling all hot and cold from being sick, I'm wearing 5 layers of clothing just to keep warm and you're god damn making me wait with my shirt off just so you can administer your stupid test to fatten your wallet.
This post is all over the place but I'm starving, I'm grumpy and I just spent 8 hours reading that fictional "A Million Little Piece of Me" book while I was waiting at the hospital. Goddamnit the book was good but every time I read a section and I think "Wow that's deep/amazing/powerful", I have to remind myself that the fucker basically made 90% of the story up and but the book is still considered non-fiction/a memoir.
 
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Irregular heart rate and hx of syncope are indications for ECG. They have every right to give you an ECG as a preventive measure. What would you have wanted the doctors to do?
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ECG is standard of care in your situation. They have to order it or else they're being negligent. Why would you complain about a procedure that is, as you say, "really simple, non-invasive"? Those are the two things that make it an AMAZING test. Doctors have to rule out serious things, that's their fucking job. Especially when they can easily rule those serious things out with a "really simple, non-invasive" test. I mean, you're the one who showed up to the ER, then complain when they give you standard care.
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yeah. typical parents to be like that. They can never understand you. If i were you ,then when you get back on your feet again i would not talk to your parents for a long while. They deserve that.
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On December 26 2010 22:04 Zim23 wrote:
ECG is standard of care in your situation. They have to order it or else they're being negligent. Why would you complain about a procedure that is, as you say, "really simple, non-invasive"? Those are the two things that make it an AMAZING test. Doctors have to rule out serious things, that's their fucking job. Especially when they can easily rule those serious things out with a "really simple, non-invasive" test. I mean, you're the one who showed up to the ER, then complain when they give you standard care.
Sorry my blog was confusing. My dad went to the emergency rooms this christmas while I got sick last winter and I refused to go to the emergency room and just saw my primary care doctor in the morning. At the emergency room, they actually gave my dad an ECG, Cat scan and x-rays because he complained about abdominal pain (I'm actually glad and surprised that they were so thorough).
I mostly go to Chinese doctors and AFAIK they receive less money from insurance/medicare than what they would get normally, so to make up for it, they used to bill the crap out of insurance for stuff they didn't do (aka fraud).
I remember I had to go get a checkup before I can start dorming for college a while back, and they basically I was there for a good 10 minutes top. The doctor check my ears, did the stethoscope thing, checked my blood pressure, check my ears, standard basic check-up stuff. When I received the bill from insurance, they billed me for a blood test, some shot and a list of other crap that they didn't do. When I go wtf and threatened to report them they said that wasn't a bill and to come back if the insurance makes me pay extra. I didn't really know much about medical insurance and what not so when I asked my parents they just shrug and acted like it was standard procedure to bill the crap out of insurance.
the insurance companies got wise to this so nowadays they just give the ECG test to every patient. I'm not doubting the usefulness of the ECG, but I think it's ridiculous and greedy as fuck when they're trying to give me my third ECG in a month (did one when I got sick, did one when I went back for a checkup, and then they told me I needed another ECG when I went back for the follow up) when the two previous result didn't indicate any problems.
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On December 27 2010 06:03 crazeman wrote:Show nested quote +On December 26 2010 22:04 Zim23 wrote:
ECG is standard of care in your situation. They have to order it or else they're being negligent. Why would you complain about a procedure that is, as you say, "really simple, non-invasive"? Those are the two things that make it an AMAZING test. Doctors have to rule out serious things, that's their fucking job. Especially when they can easily rule those serious things out with a "really simple, non-invasive" test. I mean, you're the one who showed up to the ER, then complain when they give you standard care. Sorry my blog was confusing. My dad went to the emergency rooms this christmas while I got sick last winter and I refused to go to the emergency room and just saw my primary care doctor in the morning. At the emergency room, they actually gave my dad an ECG, Cat scan and x-rays because he complained about abdominal pain (I'm actually glad and surprised that they were so thorough). I mostly go to Chinese doctors and AFAIK they receive less money from insurance/medicare than what they would get normally, so to make up for it, they used to bill the crap out of insurance for stuff they didn't do (aka fraud). I remember I had to go get a checkup before I can start dorming for college a while back, and they basically I was there for a good 10 minutes top. The doctor check my ears, did the stethoscope thing, checked my blood pressure, check my ears, standard basic check-up stuff. When I received the bill from insurance, they billed me for a blood test, some shot and a list of other crap that they didn't do. When I go wtf and threatened to report them they said that wasn't a bill and to come back if the insurance makes me pay extra. I didn't really know much about medical insurance and what not so when I asked my parents they just shrug and acted like it was standard procedure to bill the crap out of insurance. the insurance companies got wise to this so nowadays they just give the ECG test to every patient. I'm not doubting the usefulness of the ECG, but I think it's ridiculous and greedy as fuck when they're trying to give me my third ECG in a month (did one when I got sick, did one when I went back for a checkup, and then they told me I needed another ECG when I went back for the follow up) when the two previous result didn't indicate any problems.
That's a lot of random bullshit that provides no justification for these claims: "The sad part is that the EKG is an elaborate trick. I have medicaid and the EKG is a really simple, non-invasive procedure/test to administer and they tell EVERYONE they need an EKG so they can charge the shit out of your insurance for basically a 5 minute test that any nurse can administer."
You really know next-to-nothing about the health care system. Judgmental assholes aren't that bad but ignorant ones are intolerable.
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On December 26 2010 22:28 exeexe wrote:
yeah. typical parents to be like that. They can never understand you. If i were you ,then when you get back on your feet again i would not talk to your parents for a long while. They deserve that.
I hope I'm not being baited, but wtf is this passive-aggressive response - "they can never understand you" ? In some extreme cases I'd say this is true, but in most cases no man is an island and certainly no one is too deep and complex to "understand."
OP, sorry to hear that your parents didn't take your sickness seriously :/ tbh your family sounds a bit like mine (my parents are chinese, doctors, and ironically very distrustful of all other doctors. they also feed me expired medicine). In your parents' defense, it's true that "expired medicine never hurt anyone and the worst it can do is make you feel the same." Loses its efficacy, doesn't morph into some moldy contagion 
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