Violator

Ahhh.....the good old days at spending time in the ER @ St. Paul's on a weekend night (no......I ain't saying what I did to be there ).

I did feel good though (you know if you're waiting FOREVER, it can't be serious ).  So, waiting for hours in the 'waiting area', the paramedics bring in a patient.  Nothing seemed out of the ordinary.  Nurse asks patient if he needs some medicine to kill the pain?  Guy was drunk and didn't feel anything, so he declined.  Apparently he was re-enacting a scene from the movie "Lethal Weapon 2" where Mel Gibson was able to put his shoulder 'back in place' after deliberatly dislocating it to get out of a straight jacket.  Kept trying to 'force it back into place' without success.  As I said, he was drunk and it completely dulled his pain.  After a short period though, he was slowly getting sober.....and that's when he started to feel the pain.  Boy did he scream for help not long afterwards.  I don't I ever heard a person scream so loud!

Now, when I watch that movie again, I can't help but think of that guy.

ER rooms in the lower mainland resemble the Mash unit from the TV show....

Complete and utter gong show pretty much every evening.......

I just about watched my dad pass in the ER room due to very poor service and care that was given. I thought i was in a third world country..... but actually they probably have better care there...

I still remember recovering from my stroke. And waiting to get tests done on me at VGH. I was in a hallway in ER on a gurney. The guy two tables down got into a fist fight with his brother in law. So the world is spinning to me (the stroke gave me vertigo). I'm trying to keep from being sick. And I hear on the loudspeaker a request for security. 

The poor nurse had to struggle and break up the fight. 10 minutes later a security guard pops in, by that time it was all over. He shrugs and walks away.

I was so appalled. I wondered if politicians had to spend a night at an ER, if that would get them to give Hospitals the funding they needed.