Highland Hostile Hospital

p nbsp;/p p/p p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt" span lang="EN" style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 11pt"bHighland Hostile Hospital/b/span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt" span lang="EN" style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 11pt"Wounded soldiers arrive, limping, some carried by arms, wheelchairs, or cars,spannbsp; /spanwounded by the battles that the streets of Oakland make us fight, from mental illness, scars, and drive bys./span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt" span lang="EN" style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 11pt"We get information sitting side by side at the Emergency waiting room,/span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt" span lang="EN" style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 11pt"waiting to be treated from our wounds./span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt" span lang="EN" style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 11pt"b11 am/ Emergency Waiting Room Highland Hospital/ Oakland CA./b/span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt" span lang="EN" style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 11pt"I been here for four hours, all i want is to see a doctor, i seen people wait for 30 minutes been treated and gone/span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt" span lang="EN" style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 11pt"A young man in his early twenties sits and waits.nbsp;nbsp;He tells the receptionist he needs to be seen, only to be told to sitnbsp;and calm down ornbsp;security will be called. Hespannbsp;/spanseemed to be having a emotional breakdown and needed to talk to someone. He sat and waited./span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt" span lang="EN" style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 11pt"We waited in the emergency waiting room for an hour and a half with my relative waiting to be called to be treated./span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt" span lang="EN" style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 11pt"We witnessed people there for 30 minutes and wouldnbsp;have beennbsp;called sooner; my guess is that they had some kind of insurance.nbsp;nbsp;I also heard how some of the women there were waiting for hours waiting for a translator to help them fill the paperwork, and when i offer tonbsp;help, the the nurse said i had to be a relative to fill out the paper work. /span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt" span lang="EN" style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 11pt"b12:30 pm We listen to the bad pronunciation of our last name been call/b/span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt" span lang="EN" style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 11pt"A really nice nurse introduced herself and begins walking us to the room where the doctor would check my relative#39;s well being, Wait in this room, the Doctor will be here shortly/span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt" span lang="EN" style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 11pt"An hour Later.../span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt" span lang="EN" style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 11pt"b1:30 pm Doctor Arrives/b/span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt" span lang="EN" style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 11pt"The Doc checks on my relative, decides to get X-rays to have a better look and understanding of what#39;s happened?/span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt" span lang="EN" style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 11pt"The Doc calls the X-rays department to get someone with a portable X ray machine to my relative room Pronto./span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt" span lang="EN" style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 11pt"b2:30 pm the nurse with the X-rays arrives/b/span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt" span lang="EN" style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 11pt"The nurse takes 2 x-rays but before that, asks me to step out the room for my own safety./span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt" span lang="EN" style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 11pt"b3:30 the Doc comes back/b/span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt" span lang="EN" style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 11pt"The Doc comes back with the X-rays and said the bones seen to be fine, we think is your ligaments or muscle, we going to send you to a specialist, unfortunately they are really backed up, so it will take about 2 to 3 months.nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;We#39;re going tonbsp;give you pain medicine./span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt" span lang="EN" style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 11pt"Doc: The nurse will be in here to write the prescription, and make your appointment shortly/span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt" span lang="EN" style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 11pt"Secret Code=spannbsp; /spanshortly means an Hour/span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt" span lang="EN" style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 11pt"b4:30 pm the nurse shows up/b/span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt" span lang="EN" style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 11pt"Nurse shows up with the prescription, and the appointment and wishes us a good weekend./span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt" span lang="EN" style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 11pt"As we are walking out back to the battlefields in Oaklandhellip;. i notice more wounded soldiersspannbsp; /spanwaiting in the emergency room, twice as much./span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt" span lang="EN" style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 11pt"We the wounded soldiers ,who had never fought a fight, but have many battle stories to share about HELLCARE and the lack of./span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt" span lang="EN" style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 11pt"Cut the resources for the Black the Brown and the Poorhellip;Promise Universal Healthcare, give them Tylenol or Vickshellip;to make them go awayhellip;/span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt" span lang="EN" style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 11pt"Mission Accomplished?/span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt" span lang="EN" style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 11pt"People of color and poor people, we are the ones who suffer the most in this unjust HELLCARE system, where we get denied real treatment, and after that, sometimes we have to deal with Doctors that think just because English/span is our second language we can#39;t tell our mouth from our Ass./p