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Citizen grateful for hospital care

My wife had to take me to the hospital recently on a Saturday morning with major stomach ache.

My wife had to take me to the hospital recently on a Saturday morning with major stomach ache.

It was about 1 a.m., I got straight into triage, had a short Q & A with a nurse, was taken into the emergency ward right away.

I was assessed by two more nurses and a short time later by a lady doctor. They gave me morphine, thank goodness, and got some sleep. At 9 a.m. I had a CT scan which was read by the radiologist at about 10 - 10.30 a.m. Another lady doctor assessed me and checked to see how I was at about 11 a.m. At around noon a surgeon game by and told me the result of the scan and gave me my options for the surgery which I would have to have.

My wife and I made the decision to go ahead, I was prepped immediately and the operation was performed at 3 p.m. by two surgeons and a doctor anesthesiologist.

All the RNs and LPNs and other staff were compassionate and professional. While in the ER there was a lady in the next bay who was extremely distressed, distraught and who needed lots of attention.

The nurse, who was also looking after me, was unbelievable in how she  managed all this and she definitely went above and beyond in her nursing care and her efforts to comfort this very sick and demanding lady, and also making time to take care of her most basic of human needs.

Our caregivers and medical professionals in Salmon Arm deserve nothing but the utmost respect. I am indebted to them.

James Roberts