Post #4454520
2026-08-07 14:52 UTC
#USHealthcare #ER
7:50 AM: I have been in the ER exam room for a full (billable) hour. I've seen 2 nurses, a doctor, and an X-ray technician.
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@mlanger@mastodon.world 2026-08-07 15:29
#USHealthcare #ER 8:20 AM. Doctor comes back in. Summarizes the tests. Nothing indicated, nothing conclusive. Suggests appointment with the rheumatologist which I immediately knocked down because of past experience. Wants to immobilize the finger and put me on Aleve. Says to try to get an appointment with my primary care physician in about 10 days. When I again suggest the barnacle fragments, he claims that there's no way that they could have migrated. I begin waiting for the nurse.