OK, this might take awhile. My 90 year old uncle,who by the way has never been married and has no children, therefore my parents and my siblings and I are very close to him, is having his birthday party today. My mother called me at work to tell me he was in the ER today and that the Dr. wanted to admit him. My uncle told the Dr. no because of the party. I go down to the ER to see what was going on. My uncle had already left and the ER Dr. and nurses told me they couldn't tell me anything...HIPPA. I told them I understood and asked if my uncle fully understood because he is very HOH. The Dr. told me my uncle was fully aware. I go back to my unit and call my uncle. Surprise!!!!! He had no idea what was going on. He told me he went to the ER to get "cleaned out"
( He does get constipated) and all of a sudden all these other people were there talking to him telling him he had to stay.
I called the ER to tell one of the nurses that my uncle was totally unaware of what was happening and to please understand that he is 90 and HOH. 30 seconds later the ER Dr. calls me screaming at me about HIPPA. When I was able to get a word in, which was quite difficult, I told him that I hadn't called for info, that I was concerned about my 90 year old uncle being in ER with no advocate then informing me he understood everything when he clearly didn't. I wonder if that Dr. would have screamed at a family member if she wasn't a nurse. I am very upset and don't know how to handle this. I did not deserve to be talked to that way.
