Deanna Provost Review of CSSS Champlain-Charles-LeMoyne
I was very angry today at the emergency room in Ch...
I was very angry today at the emergency room in Charles Lemoynes hospital. Most of the staff were excellent, there were wait times but that is expected. I was there because my husband and sister convinced me to go on Monday evening because I was having trouble breathing, that was fine, diagnosed with hyperventilating, apparently you can hyperventilate while sleeping because I woke up that way. But some of my blood work was high so they wanted to do some more tests, I didn't think they were necessary but they wanted it and my husband wanted to be safe. The Dr. wanted to keep me overnight because I couldn't talk, this is due to a brain issue and I didn't feel I would get a good sleep there so we came home, I am on a wait list for brain surgery. So we went back when they called, I did the test and as expected it was okay, so I wanted to go home. But the Dr. who talked to me said that they see patients that exaggerate their symptoms to get surgery faster and that "language doesn't work like that". It was suggested that I go back to the waiting room to wait to see neurologists, the neurologists told me 2 weeks ago that there was no more that they could do. And I was not waiting hours to hear that again. I was there for my breathing, not my brain. So I signed myself out and left. That Dr. was in my opinion basically calling me a liar and that I was making up symptoms. My trust with that hospital is shaky now. The nurses and the technicians have been very good to me, as well as some Dr.'s. I don't know what his name was and I doubt it matters, but I hope that he never talks to a patient that way again. I still can't talk by the way, and if I were to make up symptoms, my voice is the very last thing I would fake. I was a music teacher, involved in choirs that I loved. For now that is gone, I don't know if I will get it back. I would never fake that. I am very upset, hurt, and angry over this experience.
Comments: