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Originally Posted by KittyKat

So sorry, Teddy. I don't know what it is about ERs and people in pain. The more pain you're in the less care you receive. It's like they only want to take care of people having heart attacks, strokes, or blood pumping out of an artery. That way they know exactly what to do and don't have to spend too much time trying to diagnose someone. Having been a hospital RN in the good old days of 1976-2001, if a person came in with flank pain and a kidney stone was strongly suspected, the person was admitted(!) to a real bed. The person received IV fluids to help enlarge the ureter so the stone could pass and was given powerful pain medication because this ranks right up there with giving birth. Now, like you, you're lucky if you even get seen. Someone screwed up in triage, Teddy.

I agree! Many years ago, I went through a period where I would get kidney stones about every 18 months. A good triage nurse in an ER would often recognize the classic position of the patient bent over in pain and his hand on the kidney area and would get him in the back immediately. I am guessing ERs may have gotten a lot busier over the years, but waiting that long in that kind of pain sounds like someone may have missed something.