4 /5 Skye D: I awoke in the middle of the night with unbearable stomach pain and drove to my usual hospital, Kaiser on Stockdale. The doctors there said they could not take me and sent me to another Kaiser Hospital: was sent by Kaiser Hospitals 2615 Chester Avenue. The nurses and doctors there were kind but overwhelmed. Eventually, many of us gave up our seats to other incoming patients in pain. By that time, it was midnight. So in order to keep our places in line, we sat on the floor of the parking lot. All of the other patients were very kind. Despite the pain. Eventually the sun came up and seeing a drug store in the distance, several of us walked there, purchased pain killers and went our separate ways, never having seen a doctor. Several weeks later, I received a bill for over a thousand dollars from something called Adventist Hospital. I complained that I had been to Kaiser, not Adventist, and had never been to anything called Adventist. I drove back to the second hospital, drove to the back side of the building and, indeed, saw that Kaiser had sent me to an Adventist Hospital without any notice. Because I was in so much pain, Adventist doctors never told me that I was at a different hospital. I never received any care from Kaiser or Adventist. Neither has any proof that they cared for me. But they want over a grand. Who knows how much the double teaming raked in for the night. They billed me for over two grand for sitting in my car in the parking. Now, Kaiser is billing me again. If nothing else, the two hospitals should give the money to the friends of patients who sat on the Adventist parking lot floor, try to keep us laughing at bad jokes to distract us from the pain. Even though I for one did not that what turned to be a two grand each joke on us was funny.
