Oh dear

You know a hospital is bad when...

Background, as always. We have two competing medical care systems in Bugpit County. There's Frederick Krueger Memorial Hospital and its associated clinics, and Van Helsing Clinic, which is building a hospital next year, but does not have one yet. Krueger Memorial is a scary, scary place. Highlights I've had/heard are when they refused to treat one of our residents on the grounds that "he was violent" (um, no he wasn't, and that doesn't make it legal to refuse him treatment if he were, but I digress), and when they refused to treat a girl who had been roofie'd because the nurses decided "she was just drunk". Meanwhile, the Van Helsing system is full of competent, professional people who are nice to you. I am not looking for KM to stay open after VH gets their hospital built. But anyways.

To get the razor wielding gnomes out of my throat, I had to go to the Van Helsing clinic when Mr. Samoa got home this evening. There was a short wait, and while we were waiting there was a guy with a bandage clamped over his arm and blood dripping down it. Presently he was called back, and shortly thereafter he returned, grumpy. His friend asked him what the trouble was. Turned out he had SEVERED AN ARTERY (aaaaa!) and was going to have to go to KM as VH will not be equipped to deal with such injuries until the hospital is finished. He very much did not want to. As his friend was dragging him out the door, I could hear him mumbling, "But I don't WANT to go to Krueger! They're crazy there!" I rather imagine he may have eventually wound up at Next State Over Memorial (we're actually closer to the next state over than we are the rest of Ourstate) or gone an hour the other direction to Zentown, where I grew up and where they have actual medical care too.

You know it's bad when...