a question

dj jarvis

i had a heart attack 2 years back and had a interesting run in with a private hospital in Dublin

presented myself to their " accident and emergency " dept with every symptom of a heart attack , chest pains - shooting pains in left arm - sore neck - teeth on left side hurting ect ect ect

told the receptionist took details and told me to sit - double took her becasue i was not sure i heard her right - i told her heart attack and she said sit ??
so 30 minutes later i still had not been seen , doubled over with pain and fear , all the other patients were asking me was i ok - it was obvious i was in trouble

i got up went to the toilet and collapsed , got back up and fell back to reception - asked to be seen now with tears in my eyes
brought to see a doctor - asked me all the same questions - and vanished
a hour later done a ecg and vanished - and this cycle went on
for 5 hours - at one point a consultant asked me about my problem and my symptoms and remarked " i really should get that seen to "
i was asked at least 10 times had i got private insurance and constantly told how expensive this facility was

after 5 hours they decided to bounce me a public hospital - this is after telling them i had a credit card and did not give a crap how much it cost - treat me now !!!

the ambulance crew arrived and asked had i received asprin ? answer no
had i received DMT spray ( i think its called that ) answer no
the crew went nuts - could not believe it :eek:
they announced " this man has had a massive heart attack - hes going straight to surgery " and were really pissed off with the doctors and nurses i could not believe this - i spent 5 hours try to convince these dopes i was having a heart attack and it took a Dublin city ambulance crew 5 minutes to correctly diagnose my problem

so we are full tilt on a bed out of this hospital , real er stuff , and this voice starts shouting stop! stop! - so out of nowhere this clown with a laser card machine is running with us

he wanted my credit card so he could charge me 480 euro for the 5 hours and the 2 pain killers ( solfadene ) they gave me
after hearing this the crew went mental - telling him to **** off , one shouted at him " have you got his address ? yes , well ****ing bill him " and

this is happening while we are running - one of the crew members had to try kick this clown away as we were running just to keep him from getting to me - i swear to god

got into the ambulance - told by the crew member " don't worry son we are professionals - not like those chancers "

within 25 minutes i was in theater getting a stent and angeograme , spent 10 days in cardiac resuscitate unit - intensive care for heart patients

could not fault the public service at all - could not believe the private hospitals attitude - all they were interested in was my insurance details so they could get paid , they did not care about me becasue they thought they were not getting paid

i thought that doctors no matter the circumstances had to help to the limit of their skills - i was fobbed off and disregarded totally

should i report them - or even take action ?

i was 5 hours having a heart attack and they not only missed it but did not even do the absolute basic's
and to add insult to injury my wife arrived in to hospital 48 hours later with my 11 month old and a envelope
it contained a invoice from said private hospital for 480 euro !!! within 48 hours :eek:

so ...... build a bridge or **** them up - you decide

Sharpshooter

I hope you are doing well now OP, unfortunately because of this boards.ie RULE your thread must be closed.