The dialysis center has you turn out your pockets upon entering.
This evening at going in, same routine. Put your name on the white board(which I think is not cool)
Go to the desk, turn out your pockets. They glance or look askance if nothing is presented. Generally I have nothing. My phones and tablet, and newspaper/book are with my blankie.
I put a hoodie on today. It had my inhaler and an insulin pen in the pocket. I guess they were there from awhile ago.
The person at the desk grabbed them up and said something to the effect “no drugs brought in” they then looked closely at both and said " these are both expired" chunked them in the trash under the desk.
I stumbled around and was gonna say, “hey, that’s just rude!”
Except Ivy beat me to it.
First off I was ticked off because they were mopping the floors where people were waiting. I tried real hard not to think about what happened to cause this untimely clean up.
Next I got to see a rude person just toss my belongings with out explanation or an “I’m sorry”
Finally, what do they think people are gonna bring into a place that’s saving their lives that’s dangerous?
I know, I know. Shootings happen. Happened close to here today.
This is even a more personal place than a regular clinic or hospital, as a medical facility goes.
You’re there for one reason, so you’ll live another few days.
I can’t imagine a less likely place.
You might want to double-check, but I strongly suspect putting personally identifiable patient info in public view is a HIPAA violation. Then there’s the confiscation of prescription meds and the attitude. Can you contact the management of this place or perhaps find a different place and let this one know why they’re losing a patient? I’m honestly not sure I’d trust this bunch with my health, based on the described lack of professionalism.
Of course, I don’t know their medical trash removal. For all I know it was red bag lined trash can.
I do know they’ve medical specific, afterhours cleaning crew.
I’ve talked to a person who worked for the company. They pay their workers something close to $45/hour.
Great money for basically untrained workers.
Just gotta work at night and not be nervous around disposed medical trash.
My local hospital’s emergency room now has a guard and metal detector at the entrance. We showed up when my husband was having severe chest pain, and the guard sized us up and said PROBABLY we didn’t need to remove our belts to get through the metal detector, but we had to turn out our pockets and put all the items in the little bin, just like at the airport. My god. What do they do when someone’s bleeding out on the spot, not merely having a heart attack?
I agree, they have no right to throw out your personal property. They are not law enforcement, nor were you at a TSA checkpoint. If they had a problem with you bringing them into their facility, they should have politely told you and allowed you to store them in your vehicle.
As the OP well knows, insulin costs are out of control in this country. And expired insulin may well be better than no insulin. But that is not their call to make.
Try going into your local Social Security office. In mine,there are two people working behind the screened off office. And before you can even go in, there is an armed security guard covering the entrance. Bored. Empty your pockets, check for carrying a gun, drugs, before you can even get inside to ask a probably easy question. Higher security than most banks and worse service than at the Dept. of Motor Vehicles.
Oh yes, I feel better before I get out of the chair, if I’ve had no problems. And that does happen. Glucose drop, cramps, nausea, extreme fatigue.
It’s an invasive procedure 3 times a week. Takes it on toll on the body.
I have no choice, not a viable kidney transplant patient.
So this is my life …til it’s not.
Are they developing home machines that you can do on your own? Maybe it’s not even plausible.
I donate blood a few times a year. Just whole blood where they take out a pint. Years ago I would do a thing called Power Red where they would run some blood through a filter to take out the red cells (?) and then put the rest back in. It was the weirdest damn feeling to have the cold* blood put back in. I finally had to stop because it made me feel crappy for two days.
*It wasn’t really cold cold but noticeably colder than it was going out.
