I just stumbled upon your blog post. It caught my ...

I just stumbled upon your blog post. It caught my curiosity – being a 2nd year x-ray student. I'm so sorry to hear about the ordeal you had to go through in the ER. I'm embarrassed that the x-ray tech that took your images lacked the professionalism to look up your history before coming to get you. I agree with the poster above me. Every ER is run differently. In fact, at the hospital where I do my clinical rotations it is hospital policy that all ER patients be transported to and from x-ray in either a wheel chair or gurney regardless of their injury or illness. It makes me cringe to think that you would have to walk on your injured foot through the entire process of getting admitted. Someone should have thought to get you a wheel chair no-matter how busy they may have been. My Dad was recently in the same situation as you. He went to a small-town ER to get his foot checked out and he was told to wait in a long line (standing-up of course!). He left without ever getting his foot checked despite my nagging, and it still bothers him to this day…