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Originally Posted by CFrance
GE, with all due respect to your knowledge... If only everyone were a doctor and could diagnose the severity of his own illness/emergency. Or if only (and maybe they did; OP didn't say) the doctors and nurses communicated every single thing in your original reply to her to ease her fears over her condition and the degree of contagiousness of her roommate. The latter may not be possible due to time constraints, but somewhere along the line somebody must have had enough time to convey that information. Or they should make the time, since 16 out of 17 patients, using your experience as a for-instance, in an ER aren't in life-threatening conditions.
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I wish they would communicate everything as well---it makes it easier all around. And frankly, it doesn't really take that much time. Remember, 16 out of 17 was a distant assessment at single moment in time---in real life there are times that serious cases come in droves and times where it is more like a flu clinic. As Momma always said, ER life is like a box of chocolates--you never know what you get