The ERs now ROUTINELY make patients who complain of pain wait longer than they used to, out of fear that someone is faking pain to get narcotics! I went in for a kidney stone (didn't know it; thought it was appendix) and they had me wait about 45 minutes in extreme pain before they finally did a CT scan to show it was a kidney stone. By that time, the pain had finally started to subside.
The ERs now ROUTINELY make patients who complain of pain wait longer than they used to, out of fear that someone is faking pain to get narcotics! I went in for a kidney stone (didn't know it; thought it was appendix) and they had me wait about 45 minutes in extreme pain before they finally did a CT scan to show it was a kidney stone. By that time, the pain had finally started to subside.