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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Happened to me recently, I had an accident with internal injury and internal bleeding, the pain was through the roof, they did not believe me, chastised me and conveniently "forgot" me in a waiting cubicle. Once CT scan showed internal bleeding, the er doc apologized but it did not take away from the crazy pain or being essentially abandoned while I as pleading for help. Oh well. I guess its the reality these days.[/quote]

Did it occur to you they had to validate the injury and there may have been an actual medical reason they didn’t give you pain control? Like, surgery may have been imminent and they didn’t want to risk depressing your respiratory system? Or as you were still wing assessed they wanted to make sure your neurological system was able to be checked? [/quote]

In that case they could have mentioned to me that they were withholding pain medication for a reason. As it was, the ER doc did not say anything, walked out after checking on me without explaining anything. When she came back in a couple of hours and saw I was still in pain, she said, oh sorry, I guess the nurse forgot about you. They then gave pain medication and then did everything else so no, sorry the nurse forgot about you did not seem like an actual medical reason to withhold pain meds.[/quote]

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