Obviously if Shazam heard him make these remarks he made certain they knew what was going on and then he left his reports with the charge nurse….

I dont know what else he should have done unless you think maybe he should have been in a panic running, yelling and screaming through the halls of the ER?

Waited a week to go to the ER. (Would rather eat worms than talk to medical people.)

I input my symptoms into the “Family Doctor” website, that’s the diagnosis the ‘bot came up with.

Surprise! That’s what it was! For the time before I went in, I was short of breath, and could feel my chest contents shift when I turned over in bed. It hurt, too.

When I finally got to the ER, the surgeon (once I got past the asshole who first looked at me) stuck me with a chest tube; a big one.

He said, IIRC, “I like to make a big enough hole to stick my finger in and feel what’s up in there.”

Funny, “Band of Brothers” was showing on the TV in my treatment alcove while this was going on, with revoltingly realistic casualty depictions. Made me not mind my own pain quite so much