Health care, or lack thereof...

Emergency rooms are foolishness. As are ambulance rides. I waited 5 hours in unbearable pain, ignored when I requested water on a number of occasions, and when finally the doc showed up between 4 and 5 in the morning (apparently only a 'couple of minutes' since about 2 am, or so I was assured) he downplayed my illness as 'stress' and 'hyperventilating'. Nurse gave me some drugs which helped me relax and also got rid of the constant nausea I was feeling, and I fell asleep shortly thereafter. A procedure which took all of three minutes. After that I was further ignored until about 9 am when I was finally told nothing was wrong in my workup and allowed to leave.

So, now I'm in the hole who knows how much. Awesome.