Usually I have been accompanied by a nurse and a technician. This time I was an inpatient and wheeled down by a porter with a "sparkling" line in conversation, a Cardiology Rehab Nurse and the Cardio Consultant. They hooked me up to all sorts of stuff including an ECG (Cue another person in the room to operate that). By now I was not happy and the Technician/Physio due to operate the treadmill was well pissed off.
I have previously always started on the flat and they normally warned me when they were going to increase speed or incline. On this occasion she did neither but started me walking on an incline of whatever (I have no idea what) She got further annoyed when the cardiolgist asked the nurse to take BP before the start whilst he personally attached the 12 ECG leads. The Techy person was huffing in the background. When the Doc finally said she could start the machine went off, I started jogging to keep up and the Doc said "That's enough" Techy said "But we've only just started" and the Doc said "I've seen all I need, turn it off". She turned it off with a loud sigh. Doc removed all leads etc and helped me into a wheelchair. Told the rehab Nurse and Porter to take me back to the ward, told the other nurse to check my BP once I was back on the bed and that he would be up in a couple of minutes. As they wheeled me out he turned to the Techy and the last I heard was launching into a "Don't you EVER contradict me in front of a patient ..............................."
When he got to the ward he told me that he wanted to do an immediate angioplasty and if it was OK by me he'd do it that same evening.