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| Topic | One of the weirdest things to me is hospitals posting their er wait times on... |
| adjl 12/14/22 11:16:12 AM #10: | wpot posted... My sister works in an ER and she would tell you that many/most people who go to the ER shouldn't really be there. Many people go to the ER for more or less any problem they have. Likewise the system is its own worse enemy: there are about 50 trigger phrases you can use when describing your issue to a nurse that will cause him/her to send you to the ER instead relying on a clinic visit. It's good to be cautious, yes, but many times the forwarding is something that's clearly being done for legalistic (not realistic) reasons. A ton of the people waiting in the ER here are only there because it's their only option to get prescriptions renewed, since they don't have a family doctor and walk-in clinics fill up too fast for them to get in. It's very much not ideal, but the government refuses to clue in to the fact that paying family doctors less than they get paid literally anywhere else in the country means we don't have enough doctors, so... --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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