Post Hip-Replacement Surgery? I Have The Rehab Facility For You! (628 hits)
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Submitted by Vagabond (View user info) at 2006-08-23 12:38:17 EDT
Part of my job is also to do the occasional bullshit transport of a patient from one facility to another. This is boring as hell but luckily rare in the district I work in.
Today I was transporting a 23 y/o kid who only spoke portuguese (fun fun for me!) to an orthopedic rehab center I'd never been to before.
We've got the address... we stick it in our GPS so we have directions there. We get there...
big sign
" *name deleted* HOSPITAL: STATE MENTAL HEALTH FACILITY - INMATE DROP-OFF IN REAR"
um..... ok
it's the only building there.... and it's the right address.
I go in and leave my partner with the patient so I can find out what's what.
The waiting room is full of guys in orange pajamas with leg irons and cuffs on. They're all accompanied by either police or guys from the sheriffs department.
umm..... The discharging facility didn't say anything about our guy being an inmate.... hmmm.
I go to the receptionist. "I'm looking for the ortho rehab center but I think i'm in the wrong place. Can you help me out?"
receptionist: "nope, you're in the right place"
me: "um... my patient isn't an inmate. he's just been discharged from *other hospital name deleted* and is a civilian needing ortho rehab"
receptionist: "yup, right here. This building is both the ortho-rehab building and the state prisoner mental health facility for the criminally insane while awaiting long-term facility assignment"
I look around. It registers why there is barbed wire around the fences that I drove through and why security sucked so hard. Yeah, hospitals have locked areas, but I have pass cards to most of them... this one, my cards didn't work on.
me (in my head) ... um... ookkkkkkaaayyy. great set up
me: "is there a different waiting room I'm supposed to take my patient to?"
receptionist: "nope, right here is fine.
I go back outside and let my partner know that our non-criminal, civilian, non-english speaking, 23 year old patient is going to be getting ortho-rehab in the same one-story building, on the same floor as convicted psycho killers.
For once, I'm thankful that my patient doesn't speak english because it means I don't have to answer questions about why the discharging facility is sending him to have snack-time with Uncle-Clem-Who-Touches-Little-Boys.
Partner is now driving us back to our district. That's now facility number 12 on the list of facilities I never want to go to again
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Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2006-10-16 18:51:51 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
No Comment
Submitted by vagabond (user info) at 2006-08-24 06:54:59 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
typing in a moving ambulance kinda slows you down a little. advice noted for next time
Submitted by JoeyG (user info) at 2006-08-24 03:42:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
This was good, but I agree with the mob. More detail would have changed "good" to "excellent".
Submitted by KindaNews (user info) at 2006-08-23 22:30:56 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
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Submitted by extacy_red (user info) at 2006-08-23 22:08:49 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
TARG!!!!!!!!!
Submitted by UnderOathMeal (user info) at 2006-08-23 17:42:50 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Y HALO THAR INMATE DROP-OFF IN REAR!
Submitted by alwayspeach1 (user info) at 2006-08-23 14:15:24 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Good.
But I agree.
More detail would have made it better.
Submitted by Brdn_Nkd (user info) at 2006-08-23 14:14:36 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by loki (user info) at 2006-08-23 13:17:46 (#)
Ranking: 2
that is messed up
welcome to rehab
don't drop the soap
haha
Submitted by Poots (user info) at 2006-08-23 13:51:28 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I love you!
Submitted by loki (user info) at 2006-08-23 13:17:46 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
that is messed up
welcome to rehab
don't drop the soap
Submitted by BobLobla (user info) at 2006-08-23 13:11:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
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Submitted by Uberjunkie (user info) at 2006-08-23 12:53:44 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Ah, the wonderful health care system.
Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2006-08-23 12:51:28 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Sensible
Submitted by Davros (user info) at 2006-08-23 12:43:19 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
This could have used more detail, but was still entertaining.
If it wasn't for your language I would have thought you were a Brit, but then again, we have care in the community so everything is just great.
-Dave
Submitted by Antioxident (user info) at 2006-08-23 12:40:34 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
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