Patients have read it. What happened when a doctor or nurse accused you of faking it when you were

actually in need of urgent medical care? My friend's dad went to the ER and the doctor said he was

fine after minimal examination. Her dad insisted something was wrong and said he wouldn't leave

until they ran some tests. As he was being escorted out by security, he had a brain aneurysm

and died. Her family was awarded a pretty massive

malpractice settlement, but they were absolutely devastated. I fell down a flight of stairs one time

while working. Hit a nail on the way down and ripped my forearm open and was bleeding a good bit.

Adrenaline had me going long enough for my girlfriend. A nurse had another hospital to drive me there.

I had a bloody paper towel on my arm and all the security

guards and nurses assumed I was a junkie that blew a vein. Finally, all the hype wore off and I kind of

passed out and woke up in a wheelchair in the exam room. I didn't know exactly what happened, but my

girlfriend was flipping out on the workers. She said half of them assumed I was on drugs and the other

half thought I was faking it to skip the line. I wasn't dying of blood loss or anything. I just got woozy when I actually was able to see the meat in my arm for the first time.

They all just watched me as I fell to the floor and busted my head on the floor. Even then they didn't do anything.

My girlfriend, who's not even half my size as I'm not a small guy at all, had to pick me up and drag me

into the wheelchair. Screw that hospital. Not as a patient, but as a parent of a patient.

My wife and I started to suspect that something was wrong with our son, starting at age two.

He would run around all day and was an active little guy, but never sweat. He also never

appeared to get cold. We live in New England, and he would often take his shirt off

before going to sleep even in the winter months. These concerns were dismissed as a,

Toddlers are weird sort of thing by his doctor. We later noticed that he would stop and complain

about his hands or feet hurting while playing or laying in bed. These were also dismissed.

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