ive only been to st vinnys in melbourne and frankston ERs recently, where said stories above happened.
but i remember going to monash hospital in clayton few years ago with a stomach ulcer vomiting in the ER for 4 hours before being asked if im ok and got told off for telling the dr which medication to give me (somac - to suppress stomach acid) whilst they shoved me in a storage room on a half prepped bed with no food, water or pain meds for 4 hours then kicked me out when i was well enough wheel me out to a shove me in a cab with a script for somac and was told there was a pharmacy in the hospital, bye bye now.
hospitals arent like they show in the movies unfortunately, so i do feel for those that are stuck in beds, but at least you are getting treatment, which seems to be the one of hard parts apparently.
but cant bitch and moan, at least its free to a point i guess?
to the OP, i hope you are just using the phrase as a form of getting a point across, please remember there are others in the same situation. when times feel like the the worst, its hard to imagine there are others in the same, let alone a worse situation and we do at least epathise with you, and i know theres alot of people at least on these forums that would do anything they can do to help in the ways that they can.
i only hope you do have some loved ones or at least friends that are close to you that you can vent, lean on, or as mentioned above, be a means of transport if nothing else.
i wish admitting myself to a hospital even under mental health circumstances meant a doctor would take me seriously, but sadly its not the case, so whilst i dont know the severity or nature of your pain, after 2 years of chronic pain i do have an understanding of how you could be getting to such extremes