do you think hospitals treat people who are "travelling" the same

daveycrockett · Mar 30, 2012

i was so sick yesterday and today i had to go to the hospital they were real assholes as soon as i said i didnt have place to go had me do a spinal tap all kinds of shit and when it got to be 2 am they let me go i said can you help me get somewhere "not my problem" no real help just enough to save their ass if something was wrong. whispering behind me "homeless" n shit fuckin assholes. im not a dirty person either they wouldnt have known unless i told them. if there is a next time im lying my ass off. it wasnt just me i saw how other people were being treated and others were even looking at me like 'wow theyre really being fucked up to you"

GetOutOf717 · Mar 30, 2012

I would like to know this. I've always wondered what would happen if I got fucked up on the road somehow and had to go to the hospital. Currently have no insurance....

daveycrockett · Mar 30, 2012

neither do i

GetOutOf717 · Mar 30, 2012

I guess I'll have to end up stitching myself back together with dental floss if I get shanked walking through the wrong part of town >_>

bryanpaul · Mar 30, 2012

they HAVE to treat you....insurance or not, at an emergency room....but yeah my experiences have been mixed ...it just depends on the people .....sometimes their super nice and other times just look at you like a peice of trash.......one thing that does suck if you give them a family member's or whatever's address and you real name and all that....and you dont go through the hoops to get financial aid...you can end up with a big fat billl.....some places will automatically sign you up or cover you with financial assistance other places you have to meet with a case worker or some shit ......i currently owe like over 5,000 dollars total from various hospital experiences......might fuck me up one day with my credit and all....my advice would be to maybe give a fake name......or at least always ask about financial aid...say your homeless and broke

GetOutOf717 · Mar 30, 2012

Hmm. I should reconsider renewing my welfare health insurance. May come in handy. I don't like leaving a place knowing I owe a lot of money though. I'm trying to stay out of trouble for awhile, and owing money is not on the list of things to have on your mind

Rager · Mar 30, 2012

you'd always like to think you can depend on other humans beings to help those in need...but alas there are always these situations in which they leave you wanting to take a smiley to most of society......sorry for your mistreatment....i've had similar ones ..bastards would not see me because i didnt have ID! Everyone was covering their mouth n noses while telling me to leave..."mind you i had a fractured wrist, a 4 in gash on the back of my head and couldnt walk due to something crushed in my knee" made a scene of sorts

and had to mend myself in the end. i had always liked MT before then too...left me bitter and more apprehensive when needing to for medical help.

wrkrsunite · Mar 30, 2012

I went to the hospital for strept throat in baton rouge a week ago. They were cool as shit, got a shot of antibiotics, they fed me n my road dawg a shit ton of sandwiches, and we got a twenty kick from a cute nurse. Yea strept throat.

Ekstasis · Mar 30, 2012

I just got out of the hospital today after having my appendix out. I would have sworn it was a uti and food poisoning. I still am not sure it wasn't. I went in without an ID and they were mostly ok. I woulda gave a fake name if my kid wasn't with me. The emergency room staff were all trashy/crappy looking. Not high-quality people themselves. I had emergency surgery and the next day I had a nurse with a platupus (beyond silicone injection lips). It took me 90 minutes to get pain meds when I rang for her repeatedly. She was only friendly when she saw I had a kindle fire and then her attitude got better. Wtf? I think hospital personel suck half the time anyway. I used to be a nurse but never worked in a hospital for that reason. They aren't supposed to treat you differently but it's hard not to treat people different if they are making you sick from their smell.

finn · Mar 30, 2012

Hell no you won't get treated the same. Sometimes someone will try to bend the rules to help you, but in general, if you don't have insurance, they will do the absolute minimum they are required to do, and they will try to make your experience as bad as they can.

outskirts · Mar 30, 2012

Hospitals like airports are a great place to get sick, shit loads of germs everywhere. I just try to doctor myself till it gets to the point
that it's beyond anything I can do, then I break down and go to the hospital.
And in my experience, yeah, you often get less than desirable treatment just for not having insurance.

Keith2 · May 13, 2012

I am pretty sure you don't want a hospital to help you find a place to stay. The only place a hospital could find you a place to stay is at a mental institution and I am fairly certain you do not want to go to one of those. At mental institutions they give people drugs that cause brain damage and harm the body. As far as the people at the hospital not treating you good the truth is is that hospitals don't treat a lot of people good. Modern hospitals are designed similarly to prisons. A more comfortable place to see a doctor might be a place where a doctor does a private practice out of his home. If there is a place like that near where you are try going to one of those instead. Hospitals suck.

Dmac · May 13, 2012

i was a nurse and worked at UNMC in Omaha. hospital emergency rooms have to treat you. if they get your real name they will hassle you to no end to try and get you to pay, Evan to the point of sending fake collection agency letters and threatening to take you to court, but they cannot legally take you to court for your bill. just blow off your hospital bill. the hospitals know that this will happen so they compensate by billing everything they can to anyone with insurance. why do you think two Tylenol cost 12.50 if insurance is paying for it?

Ridire · Mar 31, 2014

This is why I'm learning healing. If I can use medicine properly and patch up wounds, I can take care of myself and other travelers without all the bullshit that goes on in hospitals.

wokofshame · Apr 1, 2014

Flagstaff hospital hooked me up with a free hotel room, taxi ride there, and bus voucher for the next day for being broke. The hospital social workers came into my room and hooked it up.

But most big-city hospitals have multi-hour ER waits, the best time to go in is early morning after 4 am. when night shift is less busy after their busy hour which is from when they get in to work until like 3 am. Big city hospitals suck, the poorer the city the more fucked up and lower standard of care. I'm super-surprised to hear anything good about Baton Rouge hospital

Killjoy · Dec 23, 2014

Keith2 said:
I am pretty sure you don't want a hospital to help you find a place to stay. The only place a hospital could find you a place to stay is at a mental institution and I am fairly certain you do not want to go to one of those. At mental institutions they give people drugs that cause brain damage and harm the body. As far as the people at the hospital not treating you good the truth is is that hospitals don't treat a lot of people good. Modern hospitals are designed similarly to prisons. A more comfortable place to see a doctor might be a place where a doctor does a private practice out of his home. If there is a place like that near where you are try going to one of those instead. Hospitals suck.

Ive been in a psych ward. Allegedly some people there were just homeless and wanted food, bed, and shower. It wasnt like a prison and you arent forced to take drugs or bound to a room. Just my first hand experience though. Be prepared to have to strip naked to get in and or loose your ability to own a gun for 5 years

Kal · Dec 23, 2014

It depends on where you are at I have seen people treated bad because they are homeless and I have seen the homeless treated good.

kaichulita · Jan 24, 2015

I went to the ER the other day for a uti and didnt really have any problems. some of the people gave me weird looks and others felt bad that I am "homeless". I gave a fake name and a fake social security number and ended up with my prescription with no problems.

Deleted member 2626 · Jan 25, 2015

You didnt need I.D. kaichulita?

kaichulita · Jan 26, 2015

No ID necessary. I just said I didn't have any form of ID. It helps if you look homeless too

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