So here the Emergency room doc could not even diagnose what was going on, and had to call and talk to an Ear, Nose, Throat doc to figure out what was wrong.  And here there was no medical problem going on at all.  All she had to do was to pull the doggone plug out by the string attached to it.  Heck, any layperson could have done that.  When I saw my own ENT doc afterwards for follow up, she stated that if this had happened during a weekday and I had been able to come into the office, she would have instantly realized what was up, and I would have received immediate relief.  At most, it would have been a basic $150 office visit.

Instead, the idiots at PeaceHealth tortured me for 5 awful hours, lying there struggling to breath, and did nothing to help me for all that time.  Plus she ordered over $4,000 in totally unnecessary tests.

So I fully agree with you.   We have a very poor level of medical care here locally.   There are some good doctors, but we also have a lot of bad ones.

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