Jennifer Rankin

Review of Naval Medical Center Portsmout...

The emergency room here is awful. My wife was turn...

The emergency room here is awful. My wife was turned away today in severe pain because after sitting there for 4 hours they refused to give her anything for pain relief, basically insinuated that she would abuse the pain killers if they prescribed them and justified it by saying it wouldn't help for her pain anyways. They weren't willing to try anything to relieve her pain except a painful shot of medication that they tried the last time we came in (the previous Tuesday) and just made her other arm hurt but didn't do anything for the original pain complaint. My wife has been in pain for roughly a month (getting progressively worse) has barely slept in the past week, can hardly function throughout the day, and they weren't willing to try anything to help her (not even give her something while we were there to see if it helps) these doctors shouldn't be practicing medicine on our service members if they don't have the necessary compassion to put their pain, discomfort, and well being at the top of their priorities. I'm sickened and infuriated by how heartless the navy "medical professionals" have proven to be.