most pathetic display ever.(good news NO cancer found)

[Lankyrob]

Thought and prayer with you and your family Wayne. Hope all works out for you all.

[forza_inter]

That is one of the most disgusting stories I have ever heard. A mans life is at stake and you, as a professional, run out the door like a child? They should be ashamed.

Hope your uncle is ok man

[natsamjosh]

It's almost unbelievable that in the year 201 and in the most technologically advanced and powerful nation to ever exist, snake hysteria still exists. It is pathetic.

Just a friendly suggestion to try to turn this into a positive. Maybe you can contact the ambulance/firefighter folks and set up an educational presentation. If they are reasonable people, I don't see why they would object.

[NennaMeerkat]

Originally Posted by natsamjosh

Just a friendly suggestion to try to turn this into a positive. Maybe you can contact the ambulance/firefighter folks and set up an educational presentation. If they are reasonable people, I don't see why they would object.

That is a good idea actually. After their display they should be more than willing to do something to get control over themselves and their fear.

[marvelfreak]

Hope he as a fast recover and it turn out to be nothing major.

As for the rescue crew maybe then need to find a news job. Just plain disgusting their lack of professionalism.

[stephanbakir]

They just dont know any better, the dept needs to train people better so they learn how to react...

[infernalis]

Dorothy just returned from the hospital, what a mess.

Tom tried to yank out his tubes and leave, then started yelling at the hospital staff like a drunk sailor with turrets.

[NennaMeerkat]

Someone doesn't want the hospital bill me thinks. I recently had to go because of a kidney stone (which I still think was indigestion) and I am STILL receiving bills from outsourced work the hospital sent to other companies. Close to 10k in bills for a 8 hour visit, pee work, and a CAT scan. Ug...

[whoaxmary]

Tom sounds just like my father, who has colon cancer. Acts just the same in hospitals - when we actually manage to drag him there, and it takes even more effort to keep him there.

Very sorry to hear about what he's going through, my prayers go out to him, and you and Dorothy as well.

I deffinetly think you should go on with either placing a complaint or trying to press them to get educated so this doesn't happen again - next time they're iggnorance may just kill someone. ;/

[Will0W783]

Wayne, I am so sorry you had to go through that. I'd honestly press charges against the paramedics service. That they refused to come into your house and made your uncle walk outside is just disgusting. There HAS to be a malpractice suit in that.

[stephanbakir]

How do medical bills work in the US? Do you claim them on insurance or? Never payed a medical bill in my life, only found out the US did recently.

[shaunyboy]

sorry to hear of uncle tom's current situation wayne

i hope he gets back to full health soon mate

one thing about the paramedics over here they have huge testicular fortitude

they work through all sorts of crazy goings on.can't imagine your snakes bothering them

imo its a disgrace the way the medics acted

at most a simple are any of them poisonus " no " well step aside and let us do our job would have been the appropriate response

cheers shaun

[stephanbakir]

I have yet to meet a poisonous snake ^^

[NennaMeerkat]

Originally Posted by stephanbakir

How do medical bills work in the US? Do you claim them on insurance or? Never payed a medical bill in my life, only found out the US did recently.

If you have medical insurance it will take care of most of the stuff that I am getting. However I cannot afford medical insurance right now since I am unemployed. My husband and son have it, but if I had it we wouldn't be able to afford our home ect. The insurance company takes money automatically from his paycheck. He gets it automatically for no charge because he works at the company...and I decided it was more important for my son to have health coverage than myself.

Now our state will help in a small way for medical bills and possibly cover an entire charge. However the hospital I went to outsourced so much of the procedures I had done and had called in doctors that aren't actually employed at the hospital that instead of one large bill (which I do have one from the ER and Hospital) I also have to deal with about 4 other smaller bills that don't fall under the coverage of the help the state might give me.

[stephanbakir]

Wow that's lame!