How's your Saturday going? Mine? I guess my esophagus has been eosinophilizing for a while and today was the day it decided to obstruct. Whee! (I'm ok, endoscopy done, experienced fentanyl and midazolam, and now recovering!)
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* 6pm, ate something * that thing got stuck * Very stuck * So stuck that nothing i swallowed from sips of water to my own saliva went down * Eeeeevertthing came up * Nausea and vomiting for 2 hours * Odansetron, fentanyl, midazolam * Endoscopy by lovely resident + GI * All better
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Canadian experience: * ER 630 * Triaged 640 * treatment room 710 * ER Doc 725, paged GI * Covering GI resident 745 * Super friendly GI doc came 800 * Endoscopy done by 830 * resting, going home 930 Part of my Universal Health Care: $0 to me, 3hr start to finish Thanks @VGHFdn
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Replying to @tylerblack32 @moritherapy @VGHFdn
You're lucky you got seeing it all here we're being told not to go to the hospital or ER for anything unless it's covid-19 do there are mandates in many places that say if needed they will walk away from the patient in the middle of treatment. These are Physicians?

Dec 13, 2020 · 7:17 AM UTC

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Replying to @mholzschlag @tylerblack32 @moritherapy @VGHFdn
Really? So one isn’t to go to the ER for acute appendicitis? I’d love to read the mandate of you have a link.
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It's not a governed mandate. I used the wrong word. I seem to be unclear today and making people upset which is not my intent at all! It's a directive that many hospitals have in place, especially if they have few or no beds, staff or supplies. I read medical journals for my Ph.D