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Four o'clock went to palm springs general hospital for my bleeding hemorrhoid. Filled out my paper work, but was unable to locate the woman behind the counter not minutes after her giving me the paperwork. I began whistling a merry tune until a nearby nurse decided to bring the desk attendant to me. After giving my completed paper work to the woman who had requested it I waited until a nurse Nancy came, and brought me to area ten on the surgery floor. I call it an area and not a room because only a curtain stood in for the fourth wall. In this tenth area I waited until I was seen by a doctor Brendel, who looked upon my enflamed rectum and said I likely had a cut inside my anus which was bleeding. He requested I have a chest and abdominal X-ray done, as well as be given a pain killer and antiseptic, for nausea, injected into my blood stream. He also took blood samples to test my hemogloibin levels. While having the X-rays done another woman entered the room and took more blood for reasons I didn't learn, likely because the drugs had kicked in and made me a little loopy. After returning to area ten I took a nap. When I awoke a new nurse was in charge of me named Juan, he assured me the test results were coming and I should be patient as I was a patient. How clever Juan was, I thought. So I was patient and before I had been at the hospital for several hours. My mother, who had been waiting with me, inquired why I had not seen anyone yet. It seems unbeknownst to Juan the test results had come in, but doctor Brendel had not notified any surgeon that I was in need of surgery. Juan wished that we would wait for a second doctor to arrive and do another exam to determine that I needed surgery a second time. But my mother, girlfriend and I decided we had had enough and left the hospital at eleven thirty in the evening. I was most dissatisfied with my time at palm springs general hospital and will not return there ever again. I would recommend you do not as well :)
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