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While mum was still here, I had similar experiences with emergency rooms. Mum was blind and tended to roam from her bed at night, get lost and fall. Patients have rights but many time family members do not have power of attorney to get them their treatment and rights. Mum and I hadn't ever taken that step but I, like you, stood up for mum when she couldn't. Emergency rooms are just that but are expected to be the place where care can be rendered 24 hours a day. Like your case 24 hours. Doctors and nurses in the ER are trained to save lives and when a person presents them self, they are triaged according to their closeness to death. During the diagnostic phase of their treatment perhaps it is not a good idea to assist the patient to self medicate until it is clear what the cause of their admission to the ER was. You did what you thought was best for mum and I applaud you for that. John Cottingham >My mother woke up two days ago with a sore throat. Her caregiver brought >her to the doctor's office. While she was there she passed out and it was >difficult to feel her pulse. After she came to, we took her to the hospital to >rule out any heart problem. > >In the hospital I was scolded because I was giving her medication. I told >the nurse very forcefully..."I am in charge of my mother's well being and I will >give her what I need to to keep her well". From previous experience I knew >that patients are never given their meds on time, if at all. If they nurse >doesn't have one of the meds at the moment..they just skip it. > >The doctors and nurses were all very nice BUT the system isn't set up >to deal with PD patients especially elderly ones with dementia. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn