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Why? Sh!t looks like it’s going down in there.
Looks more like a clust-ER
amirite?
More like triage.
Get more people that watched Quincy in there! That’ll sort it out.
Oh look! Universal Health Care!!! =P
Wow, that’s either Canada or an IHS hospital. (For those who have never had the “privilege” of socialized medicine, just TRY getting anything accomplished at an “Indian hospital.”)
Could be Massachusets too; the latest reports about Romney-Care (pretty much the same plan that the Democrats eventually passed) is already failing. (Of course, that doesn’t account for the hundreds of millions in Federal money that has been used to prop up the MA healthcare system since Romney signed it into law).
I’ll take slow treatment over no treatment, thanks.
Not to mention, anyone who has actually had to USE an ER can tell you, it’s not like you walk in, get treated right away in a continuous manner, and then walk out (or get admitted) within an hour or two.
Lets assume something not immediately life threatening but which doesn’t clear up without at least antibiotics and if left untreated can lead to death or major disability. Say, strep throat. You show up at the ER, wait an hour to see a triage nurse. Then you go back to the waiting room and wait another 3 hours to get called to the treatment area, where you sit for another hour waiting for a doctor to show up.
He’s in the room for 10 minutes, says “we’re going to take a throat culture” and leaves. An hour later a nurse shows up and does the throat swab. Takes 2 minutes. Another hour passes before the doctor shows up again and says “Ok, you have strep, here is a prescription for antibiotics” and you can leave.
Actual time being seen by any sort of medical professional? 15 minutes (counting the 3 minutes it takes a triage nurse to take your temp and stuff). Time spent waiting… 7 hours.
And this is at a not very busy hospital ER in Colorado Springs *with* insurance. Heaven help you if you don’t have insurance.
Yep, and THATs why I moved from CO Springs back to Mississippi. To many people, not enough of those people give one little bit about their neighbors. Including Doctors. My recent ER visit here….3 hours..tops.
And we appreciate your patients (hee hee). Some delays can be chocked up to the fact that people don’t realize the “E” stands for “Emergency.” Unfortunately for your point , strep throat isn’t an emergency. Last time I had strep, I was in and out of a CVS Minute Clinic in about 30min, most of which was spent waiting for the pharmacist to fill the prescription.
Last time I was in an ED (Emergency Department is becoming the new name in the US), I was at work, and with them PUSHING me through the system, still took over an hour to get triaged, blood drawn, seen by an MD, and released. And that was when they were relatively not busy.
You sir, have been brainwashed.
actually, that’s an ER in the US. And the pic was taking during the weekend. And it has NOTHING to do with UHC or Soc Med. Y’all are idiots.
I’m actually going to say that what is actually going on in this picture is a patient (most likely in the ER) is crashing, aka dying. So all those people in there are most likely saving a person’s life, not waiting to be treated themselves. But what do I know, I’m just a nurse in the healthcare system…
There are too many plainclothes people in there, and the ones I see are sitting upright and standing. Doesn’t look like dying to me.
and if you came in with a runny nose and a cough you’re better off going home.
God bless the healthcare workers that have to work through that mess!
still better than 99% of public latin american hospitals
Just a patient ‘coding’ (in cardiac arrest). Nothing out of the ordinary. Oh look…they have the machine that goes ‘PING’.
I work in an ER and while it is true the wait times can get relatively long, but it’s due to the fact that people show up with strep throat and clog the system. If you have a pulse and are breathing, you are not an emergency. It blows my mind when people come in with things like strep throat and are so demanding and so quick to cuss out the doctors and nurses meanwhile, it’s taking an hour for that nurse to come in and do a quick 2 minute throat culture because she spent the last hour transferring someone having a MI to another hospital……Priorities though. Priorities.
I was with you until you said “if you have a pulse and are breathing.” My boyfriend went to the ER for a kidney stone, but no one would see him for 5 hours just to give him some pain relief, because his condition wasn’t considered “serious.” Have you ever passed a kidney stone? Do you have any idea what kind of pain he was in for those 5 hours?