I have

several times

a drunk was left in the hallway of
the ER in a wheelchair, bleeding
from a head wound for 4 hrs while
I watched from across the hall
as my dad got a nice comfy room.
dad had Medicare, drunk had no insurance.
drunk finally gets up and gets a bath
room towel to wrap his head and leaves
while cussing the nurses out for taking
in 5 ER patients to available rooms.

another incident, a person comes into ER
from a vehicle accident, didn't have
insurance, ER Doc tells them to load
up the patient back into the Ambulance
and take them to another hospital 1 hr away

it happens

shit happens

another incident:
a patient comes into ER with extreme pain
in the lower abdomen, left in a room
for 6 hrs due to no insurance, patient
passes out from pain and is rushed into
surgery for appendicitis and comes within
mins of dying from a ruptured appendix.
That patient was ME !!! I lived it.
I almost died because of indiscretion
due to lack of insurance. Then the
doctor comes down to the ER and shows off
the ruptured appendix to all the ER Staff
and makes jokes about poor people.
What the doctor didn't know was that
my Aunt was one of the people hearing
his vagrant speech in the ER and she
relayed it to me.

so fvck you very much