Quote Originally Posted by happylabs View Post
Sadly, this does not surprise me. I was just at the ER with my 88 year old father last month. He had been coughing up blood. We sat for over an hour. The scary thing was that after blood work and a chest x-ray they told him he had pneumonia and admitted him. Later that evening the pulmonary doc came in and told him he did not have pneumonia. I don't think we ever did find out what caused him to cough up blood but they send him home 2 days later with a strong antibiotic.
In January of this year, I took Dad to see his doctor, who sent us to the hospital and phoned them we were coming. We sat in the waiting room over 3 hours before being taken in. Grrrrr . . . .