My husband went the first time for this abscess on his cheek, it was huge, painful and oozing ""something"". He was in agony when we got there and promptly after a 4 hour wait we were shown to a room. 40 min later a nurse practitioner? arrives on the scene and dons a pair of gloves. She then scrunches up her face puts the gloved hands on the hip of her filthy coat and says ""Oh looks like an abscess."" Well no crap lady what gave you the first clue. She then informs us that they can't lance to relive the pressure, That you need a plastics guy for that. Matter of fact never even touched him at all. Just a disgusted face and a pissy haughty tone. So she orders for a shot for the pain and a script for a STRONG Sulfa based antibiotic. Not the end...No. So less than a week later he is having an allergic reaction to the sulfa antibiotic. Swollen tongue, hives on his trunk, face, arms, chest. trouble breathing, tightness in his chest.To the ER we race. We get there and he says those magic words, so I'm told ""I am having chest pains."" and we go back within 30 min. He is given the worst IV i have ever seen by the triage nurse, who refuses to leave it to his actual nurse(an attractive young man). I am left to guess that the bimbo was looking to impress the Murse, by epic failing the IV. So pepcid and antihistamines on board IV. The doctor orders an EKG, chest Xray, and Many labs without ever seeing him. When he does make it to the room he tells us its a staph infection ""Very Serious"" and he needs to stay overnight and see an infectious disease guy in the AM. Then he expects an answer that very second, dick. Well his scare mongering works by freaking us out and he just earned the hospital at last count $3,000+ and the infectious disease guy the next am basically laughs at the idea that it was anything other than an allergic reaction to a sulfa antibiotic. Next time my family has an emergent situation that just CANNOT wait we will go to St. Francis.
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