Hospital Horror Stories: Patient has Heart Attack while waiting for Doctor to return

A father was having some unusual feelings in his chest and his family drove him to the Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital emergency room to get checked out by a doctor. The dad is not overweight and exercises on a regular basis. He is 47 years old and has a healthy father as well.

When he arrived at the emergency room he was first checked in by the clerks in the emergency room. Then he was told to wait till a bed is available. So the family sat down in the waiting room and could see the clerks and nurses walking around and talking and sipping on drinks. After 45 minutes of waiting they called this man’s name and he was escorted back to see the Doctor. The doctor came over and briefly talked to this dad. Again he appears muscular and fit. The nurse put him on oxygen and ordered an EKG. The tests were done and the family waited for 85 minutes for the Doctor to come back. But the emergency Doctor did not come back in until a Doctor who was walking buy noticed the EKG on the scope. Immediately he was yelling for help as the father started to experience a heart attack. The cardiologist that was walking by saved this mans life. The cardiologist called over to Holy Cross Hospital and got the man a bed there. The man went there and had a cardiac procedure saving his life. Had the patient been left to the care of the Henry Mayo emergency room he may have died. The advice this patient’s family gives “is don't go to this hospital as the care is below bad. Again stay away from Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital.”