Sounds like the patient was dispositioned incorrectly, “Left without Being Seen” should have been the disposition, I’m sure either the registration clerk or charge nurse got it wrong.
I work in emergency departments across this nation. I walk out sometimes thinking God Bless the ones that have to come here or at the good ones they just need a good provider on shift, as they are staffed with some real doozies.
Pregnancy test, they have to give those regardless if you have those symptoms, there is a virgin at least once a day pregnant, so a persons word is no good. If the ED is not slammed, the provider could be sleeping, watching reruns of Melrose Place, having sex with someone they snuck into the doctors room or playing with their puppy dog whom they also snuck in. Yes all that happens frequently and is an issue but hey they are human too, sleep, eat and poop like the rest of us.