Boston Medical Center

August 26, 2014

There are Wet Floor signs, where there is no wet floor, including at the beginning of the line at the Emergency Room.

Even girls and women who are seeking medical attention are not free from being degraded.

A man sitting in the waiting room just grunt-coughed at me.

The way to be admitted to Urgent Care is through the Emergency Room.  Urgent Care is for medical problems which are not emergencies and which can't be dealt with by a primary care office because they need immediate treatment which the full schedule of a primary care office can't provide.

The woman who checked me in at Urgent Care had her hand all over her nose.  She kept at it until I took the large bottle of hand sanitizer that was on the patient side of her desk, set it in front of her, and said, "Here you go."  She seemed startled, and then said "Thank you."  She rubbed her nose a few more times