Is New York City a good example of skewed health care system? (Russia: fit in, insurance)
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I badly broke my leg while traveling on the New York City subway system. I was picked up by ambulance and sent to the nearest hospital which was Bellvue Hospital in downtown Manhattan. This was my first and LAST trip to New York City. I am your typical Midwestern "boring" individual. I was forced to stay over night. My floor consisted of a young late 20 something year old Irish American Ironworker with a broken pelvis and back from a fall(and his girlfriend that he demanded to let stay in the room which nearly lead to an arrest), a 50 something year old Italian wiseguy who was working as a contractor for his brothers business and collided his work van with a MTA bus(and who would call up his wife yelling and cursing every night at 3am when he could not sleep or call his brother yelling out "BETWEEN ME YOU AND THE WALL" while the entire floor heard him and I was tortured by his wiseguy arrogant accent), an elderly man on his death bed wearing a "World War II veteran" hat with several pins who could not barely move and was hard to understand when he talked(except when he started calling the West Indian nurses racial slurs), an African American male who had an infected bullet wound (from what he said he was shot in the 1990s and never had the bullet removed), an elderly Asian man who tripped and broke his ribs, a homeless mentally ill Vietnam veteran with faded tattoos and a long white beard who was ran over by a car and couldn't stop talking or complaining about the nurses(get a job before you complain about others) and several other characters who could barely speak English(A couple of illegal Mexicans and a Russian man who could have been Russian mob connected) and several drug relapses who ended up badly injured. I did not fit in well, I may have been too polite and the nurses took advantage of that. Luckily it was only a three night stay.
The floor was cramped with patients outside of rooms in stretchers, there was a criminal across the way handcuffed to the bed with a cop guarding him. I will NOT make a trip back to NY. I was treted horribly like I did not know what was good for myself. I was FORCED to stay AND pay. This is the epitome of the Liberal healthcare system and NY state. What a joke. That was a fun time and I am still catching up on sleep for work(I did not get any while I was there)
I was subject to nonstop moaning, yelling, cursing and threatening by the patients. Every minute there was an "OHHH" or an "AHHHHHHH" or a "F***!!!!". The nurses were outnumbered greatly and basically saw each patient once or twice daily.
you were tortured by the wiseguy's arrogant accent?
lol, that's funny actually.
sounds like the hospital demographics mirror the city's.
Wiseguy, Irish-American contruction worker, Russian mob, Illegal alien, Ramdom black dude, etc.
you're missing a jewish guy in there though.
As for the point of the thread, in all my interactions with the NY health system, which include my mom being hospitalized for 2 months, my wife for 3 days, and a close friend for 4 days none of them had any problems.
I guess it might depend on what hospital you are sent to.
What you got to experience was a preview of where healthcare is headed in the US.It has little to do with NYC and nothing to do with Liberals.It has everything to do with the crumbling of our healthcare system which is one of the most capitalist,non liberal systems we have,based purely on profit.Unfortunately for you,the nearest hospital was the one where everyone who has no insurance is sent.
How horrible for you to have to mingle with Irish iron workers,Italians,destitute veterans,African Americans and such
It could be worse.I was in a car accident in Virginia years ago and taken to a beautiful,pristine ,quiet hospital where they improperly set my leg after a break.They had the perfect work environment but they didn't know what they were doing! I still limp and feel the pain because of the lousy medical care I received there.I hope the folks at Bellevue at least fixed your break properly !
Scary,right ? Wait until the general breakdown envelops the rest of the country !
Because Bellvue is a public hospital that takes everyone, regardless of ability to pay, they get the toughest cases and as a result have a highly regarded ER when it comes to car wrecks, shootings, mental illness and other truly life threatening stuff. I've heard doctors themselves here say that for these types of critical situations Bellvue is hard to beat. Their docs have the experience and know how to deal with almost anything.
So instead of complaining about the dreadful ambience, count your blessings that you were treated by some of the most skilled ER staffers in the country.
I'm fairly certain this is a made up post. This dude managed to hit every stereotype he could think of (or see in the movies). While most of that is true, it's true if you spend some time walking around different neighborhoods experiencing different people and things. You're not getting all of that on one floor of Bellevue in only 3 nights. Not to mention, 3 days for a broken leg? Yeah sure. He didn't mention surgery, so I'm calling BS on this whole thing.
I'm fairly certain this is a made up post. This dude managed to hit every stereotype he could think of (or see in the movies). While most of that is true, it's true if you spend some time walking around different neighborhoods experiencing different people and things. You're not getting all of that on one floor of Bellevue in only 3 nights. Not to mention, 3 days for a broken leg? Yeah sure. He didn't mention surgery, so I'm calling BS on this whole thing.
I'm fairly certain this is a made up post. This dude managed to hit every stereotype he could think of (or see in the movies). While most of that is true, it's true if you spend some time walking around different neighborhoods experiencing different people and things. You're not getting all of that on one floor of Bellevue in only 3 nights. Not to mention, 3 days for a broken leg? Yeah sure. He didn't mention surgery, so I'm calling BS on this whole thing.
That was my initial thought as well. It truly reads like a story. Give that script to Larry David and he'll turn it in to a sitcom better than Seinfeld!
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