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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A family member arrived at a DC area hospital by ambulance following an injury. The ER staff immediately diagnosed him with a broken hip (correctly) based on info from the paramedics (that is, they didn't actually examine him) then they treated him with contempt, ignoring him for four hours without pain medication. I could only assume they thought he wss an addict despite the obvious evidence of a serious and extremely painful accident.[/quote]

That's possible.  But knowing DC hospitals, I would assume that the hospital was full of other life-threatening emergencies.  A man with a broken hip isn't in danger of dying in 4 hours.  [/quote]

If elderly, he is.[/quote]

Not really. There aren't many (if any) death certificates with "broken hip" as cause of death.[/quote]

Actually the mortality rate following broken hips is high. Look it up. Stats are skewed because this injury is most common among the elderly, but regardless mortality rates are high.

Also, this thread is about managing pain. It's not ok to leave ER patients for hours in agony while suffering from obvious serious injury and deny them pain medication. Regardless of whether there are also life threatening emergencies in the ER, at some point before four hours are up, a patient should be assessed and their pain managed. It also doesn't explain treating the patient with contempt.[/quote]

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