Trip Report Why I Won't Be Returning to Cozumel-Part 1,2&3

[uncfnp]

Not making excuses for the medical care but remember too it is a different culture. And most likely they also recognized this as nonemergent with no need for hyperbaric treatment so no reason to call in the big guns.

 

[Kimela]

this should be on a tshirt

My husband has a t-shirt that says "I see stupid people".

 

[ggunn]

My husband has a t-shirt that says "I see stupid people".

With Homer Simpson and others from the show? I have that same Tshirt.

 

[Kimela]

Not making excuses for the medical care but remember too it is a different culture. And most likely they also recognized this as nonemergent with no need for hyperbaric treatment so no reason to call in the big guns.

That also makes sense - but they didn't seem to be doing much in the way of reassuring the patient that this was what was happening. Perhaps the night shift doesn't speak English as fluently or doesn't have great bedside manner.

 

[Kimela]

With Homer Simpson and others from the show? I have that same Tshirt.

Yes! But a spoof on The Sixth Sense?

 

[ggunn]

That also makes sense - but they didn't seem to be doing much in the way of reassuring the patient that this was what was happening. Perhaps the night shift doesn't speak English as fluently or doesn't have great bedside manner.

Likely they speak no English at all. My brother had to go to the emergency room to get sewed up after hitting a patch of sand on a scooter and launching it into a ditch <insert recommendation against renting scooters> and no one in the ER had any English at all. He told my sister that he felt like he was going to faint, so she got out her pocket translator to look up "faint", but it wasn't in there, so it gave her "faith" instead. So my sister was telling them "faith! faith!" In Spanish and everyone was confused. Then my brother passed out.

 

[Scott from LongIsland]

Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO)

TEE test is simple enough. They give you a little versed to calm you down and slide a camera/probe down your esophagus. You dont even get put to sleep.

I had quite a different experience when my cardiologist tested me for a PFO. I was put into an MRI machine while i had an IV in that periodically injected dye into my bloodstream. Then i had to do a series of hyperventilation followed by breath holds. Some were very long breath holds too.

 

[uncfnp]

That also makes sense - but they didn't seem to be doing much in the way of reassuring the patient that this was what was happening. Perhaps the night shift doesn't speak English as fluently or doesn't have great bedside manner.

I also wonder if the ambulance call was put in as transport and so lower priority. That would certainly explain the slower service (excluding the wrong location)

 

[flyboy08]

3rd world country and you expect NYU care? We all take chances diving exotic places, COZ is no different.

Glad ur aok.

 

[ggunn]

I also wonder if the ambulance call was put in as transport and so lower priority. That would certainly explain the slower service (excluding the wrong location)

One thing I know about ER's in general is that the faster they attend to you the more worried you should be about your condition.