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Originally Posted by Slava
And this is the issue with why ERs are so insanely busy and have these enormous wait times. They get everyone for every problem. "Why is that guy here, it's not really an emergency!" Probably true, but where is he supposed to go at say 8:30pm?
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Exactly why I think there should be a department staffed by a nurse practitioner that deals with the non-emergengy stuff that ties up the ERs because there's no where else to go, and those tend to be the ones with the 8 hour wait times because it's not overly serious so you wait as more serious stuff goes ahead of you.
But if you were assessed then put into the "walk-in clinic" section of the hospital then you could be seen in order, in, out, wham, bam, thank you, ma'am.
Now I don't work in healthcare so there could be a laundry list of reasons why that wouldn't work but on the surface I don't see the issue.