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Originally Posted by vreihen16
About 15 years ago, I went into the hospital for a minor issue after not having seen a doctor since the Carter administration.
The hospital's doctor-du-jour who took my case sent me for NPO tests the next afternoon. When the tests were completed, I sat outside the lab in a wheelchair for almost an hour waiting for the "transportation" staff to wheel me back to my room so that I could eat/drink for the first time in 36+ hours. Long story short, the doctor-du-jour walked past and saw me sitting there, and commented that I must be dying of thirst by now. Without any hesitation, he pushed me and the wheelchair into an elevator and back to my room.
Needless to say, I was a regular patient at his practice from that day until he retired from the profession.
I am not going to bash nurses, since I would NEVER want to do their jobs.....
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FYI the "transportation" staff aren't Nurses. They are Orderlies, and there's never enough of them. Nurses are always begging for more because they don't want to keep patients waiting anymore than the patients do. This is more cost cutting by the hospital administration.