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Originally Posted by pylon
No offense Slava, but I have walked into the ER numerous times in my life with some part of my body with meat hanging out of it, a limb twisted backwards, or impaled with something, and I have never not been rushed directly to the back for repairs ahead of all the "Take some Nyquil and get some rest" patients.
I vividly remember at 25, walking in there with a branch protruding from my lower leg, being sat down, and having the nurse come over and tell me they will have me in the back within minutes so they could get it out. Some stupid lady with no visible sign of trauma, who just has sniffles and looked under the weather pipes up real loud to the person next to her how "This is bs, been here 2 hours.... yada, yada." I stared at her until she made eye contact, and pulled the towel back on my leg showing I branch with a 1.5 inch diameter, sticking out of my shin, then just shook my head. She hung her head in shame, and I smiled at her.
99% of the people complaining about wait times, are chronic complainers, and usually chronic hypochondriacs. If you walk into the ER, and you are truly in an emergency situation, you do not wait.
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Then look for the real issue in that story and the lady with the sniffles (who knows what she really had by the way) and that was a lady who likely didn't have a family doctor.
And I would say 50% of the people who truly require emergency departments are those who are vulnerable, most often the elderly who have undergone some sort of traumatic injury or illness and often times require hospitalization and have to wait for a bed to open up on a medical floor in order to get there. The reason those beds aren't open is because there is no long term care available for them to move into and the situation at their residence isn't viable. That is where the backlog in emergency really happens, it isn't the sniffles or the boo-boos on the leg, it is more systemic than that and it is the fact that the population is getting older and with age comes the inevitable injury and illness.
And that isn't addressed by any of these political parties buzzwords which is a real shame.