Amazing care,
I went to the Seton Ascension ER in Roundrock, Tx on 7/16/25 around 1:15pm on AW Grimes and the do no harm policy was violated because the was telling me what tests they would run if it was a life or death thing. I have dizziness, extreme fatigue, left and mid back pain that radiates intensifying along with aches. The student PA asked me about my meds and told me that one of them is used for addictions issues. That was offensive because the rhetoric of doctors labeling and calling everything addiction when it comes to scheduled drugs is tired and very stereotypical. I told her meds can be used off label to treatment other conditions I.E. propranolol is used to treat panic attacks but that's a blood pressure medication. By the way, I was sitting in a hallway in a chair with a dress on and the PA student did some exercises on my back and legs which required me to lift my legs into the air "I had a dress on". To me that should've been done in a room with curtains shut. I offered a UA specimen because most doctors require that to see what shows up in the urine. By it being excruciating pain in the left side, I thought she would check but no. I gave them a Urine specimen because I had to go to the restroom and due you know they told me to sit it in the floor next to the chair that I was sitting in or on the table attached to the chair. I said that it's gross and filthy to sit urine on the floor by my chair or on the table attached to my chair in a hallway. I saw multiple staff members with skin tight scrubs on and one with black slippers on pushing a patient in a wheel chair. The first nurse asked if I had X-rays done and told me that the pain management doctor should've had imaging done first. I have no idea what he was implying but it was off putting. The doctor told me that this was an emergency room so since I wasn't bleeding or have any broken limbs they would not do any imaging. I asked about the dizziness and she restated that this is an emergency room. She offered some pain meds that would make me loopy and I told her that I drove their and didn't have money for an a Uber plus I didn't want anything that would alter my state of mind. She checked to see if I could have Toradol injection, by the way it caused horrible stomach pain. I asked for a house supervisor because after the toradol injection the male nurse wanted to get my blood pressure checked before being discharged. I sat there for a long time and no one came so I walked to the front desk and asked for a house supervisor. By the way this was the first time the hospital emergency wasn't crowded, it was empty. I called the house supervisor and Jackie and he hung up me twice. I called from a different number and he finally heard me. While I was trying explain my grievances , he was having a side conversation with someone. I stated that to him, your having conversation with someone else while I'm stating a concern. He told me that someone had died and that this is an emergency room. Jackie was joking with someone, no one is cheerful and making jokes when a death is reported to them. It's a loss of life, generally there isn't any excitement or joking.
None of your staff cared enough. I went to the ER because I was too fatigued to wait for a clinic appointment with my pcp. The fatigue, dizziness and left side mid back to waist has become debilitating over the past two days. I couldn't sleep last night. The dizziness comes in waves and the fatigue to the point where I have to lay down they occur. It weakens me and all symptoms seem to occur at the same time. By the way I use a tens unit and heating patches, cream, Nambutone, 5 acetaminophen's 500mg , Naltrexone low dose, and a Tylenol 3 for this type of occurrence. None of these things are working. Is this not when an individual seeks emergency medical treatment. I hate ER's generally because of the anxiety that I experience , I don't like needles, ER's are horrible places to go. When you fill horrible, this type of treatment or lack there off with offensive accusatory questions, negating the patients needs and justifying it by saying this is an ER and I'm not bleeding or have any broken limbs so no imaging or tests would be done. That Toradol shot didn't bring my pain to an 8 on the pain scale. I said I would take an or 7 on the pain scale. I specified that I didn't expect the pain to go away completely but an 8 on the pain scale would be tolerable. Is this what's considered ethical practices for an Emergency Room and Doctors of whom take an oath to do no harm and align their care of the patients according to the code of ethics? If if is I want no parts of this and shame on Ascension Seton for condoning these types of practices at their facilities that were intended to help individuals and do their due diligence to determine the to an illness or whatever the individual's circumstances are. I'm aware that the immediacy and urgency according to the presenting symptoms of individual. read more