Worst experience ever!!!

[colta]

I just need to vent a little bit and get this off my chest.

Yesterday afternoon, while me and dh were on a 3 hour drive to visit relatives, I noticed that I was spotting bright red. I've already had this happen once before and was kind of freaked out that it was happening again. 
So, once we got to our relatives and went immediately to the local hospital, which is supposedly one of the biggest and nicest in the province. When we got there it was about 6:30 - 7pm. I was triaged by some very nice nurses and sent to the waiting room and told I wouldn't have to wait long.

Well, by 9:30pm I still hadn't gotten in, I was freaking out a little, but alright.... I expected to wait a bit. At 10pm I was finally brought back and told to put on a johnny shirt. So, we say there for a while. During this time, me and DH heard the doctor, who was speaking well enough for the entire emergency ward to hear him, loudly complain about all the pregnant women he'd had to see that day and that he was sick of them and their problems. He said he felt like making the wait was a good punishment for bothering him so much... and the nurse agreed!

Around 11-11:30pm.... I was asked to leave my room and sit in the hallway on a cold plastic chair because the dr wanted to see another lady in my room... nevermind that she was already in a gynnie room. The emergency ward is in the basement, so I ended up freezing, shivering and generally miserable. DH tried numerous times to get me a blanket, but all of the nurses ignored him. Finally a janitor noticed us sitting there and got me a nicer chair (which she had to fight with one of the nurses to get). She tried to get me a blanket, but the nurses told her to stick to her own job and stop trying to do theirs. 

By 12:30am I was brought back into the room. The dr came in and took a history and checked my heart, lungs and bowels sounds... he kept asking if I was sure I was pregnant and if I was sure I was RH postiive (I donate blood and have my bloodtype on my card). I kept reassuring him that yes... I was pregnant. He barely asked about the bleeding and never bothered to check my cervix or do any kind of pelvic exam.

After he left, I had blood drawn (he wanted to test all the things he questioned me on). And around 1am, he randomly walked in with a small, portable ultrasound. He only spoke enough to tell me to lie on the bed. He didn't show us anything, didn't speak to us... when he was done he just closed the machine up, threw me a towel and left. 

Shortly after that he got some of my tests results back and loudly discussed it with the nurse. They both sounded shocked when the test came back to say that I was actually pregnant. He than gave my nurse discharge instructions and left the floor. 
Finally, at close to 2am the nurse came back with the results and told us everything we already knew and tried to tell them. Nothing was said about the bleeding other than it could be 'normal'. I'm supposed to go into the hospital for scan today, whenever the ultrasound department calls to set up an appointment.

I've never felt so much like garbage then at that hospital last night. I'm a student nurse and I've always wanted to work at that hospital, but I've become so disillusioned with the care I received and the overall experience I had....

Anyway, if you made it this far... congrats. I know that was long, but I just needed to get it out there.

[womenswisdom]

I'm sorry about what happened. Please consider writing a letter to the hospital about your experience (including names). That is the only way this type of treatment can be addressed effectively.

[Snugglebugmom]

Wow, it sounds like you were at the hospital that I gave birth to my second child in! If it weren't in an entirely different part of the country, that is. What a lousy experience, I know exactly what you mean about the distant nurses and the non-talking doctor. Nothing can make you feel more like an insignificant slab of meat than being ignored, huh? I'm so sorry you had such a rotten night. 

[nursejoc]

Holy toledo... I'm so sorry you had to go through such a terrible experience. I'd be calling the hospital directors and lodging a complaint against the doctor and another one to the nurse in charge of the ER department for the terrible bedside maner. 

Stick, baby, stick... I hope little one will be okay.  

Don't be discouraged from working there -- that attitude they showed you is all the more reason to secure a job there! Improve the level of care they're giving ;) Show them what a real professional looks like.