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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
"What we need is an elected planning and zoning committee like all larger cities"
Which city's "elected planning board" would you like TV to emulate----Detroit or Baltimore??? Yeah, right, lets elect a bunch of amateurs, wannabees and busybodies rather than a family with 40 years experience of financial and developmental success to plan our future. I don't want people who have not been successful in life to run things----there is a reason that they lacked success in the first place
As far as TVRH goes, people seen to think this is the only place in the country with healthcare problems. I have found it is the norm, rather than the exception. If you look at the waiting times as well as the scores for CHF, MI and pneumonitis, TVRH is right about the national average. What you find on TOTV is a bunch of anecdotes where posters want to tell their individual "horror story", as they remember it. I wish they would take 5 of these and do a root cause analysis to find the real story. I would especially like to do one on the story of the 90 year old woman with a hip fracture who supposedly laid on a stretcher without being seen and without pain meds for 22 hours. I want to see the time she arrived, was triaged, was seen by nurse, doctor, had pain medication, had lab and xray ordered, when the results were received, when orthopedics saw her and when she went to the OR, all with documented times. I'm pretty well convinced that the truth would be quite different. And IF, and it's a huge if, probably an insurmountable one, the story was the same as related on TOTV, then I don't think it would have been posted here. That individual would be camped out in their lawyer's office, because it would be an open and shut case of malpractice, with a substantial pain and suffering award despite the patient's age. In addition, that treatment would be so far below the standard of care that it is likely millions of dollars in punitive damages would be awarded as well.
I can't tell you how many times a family member would come to the ER desk and ask what is happening with their relative----"I've been waiting 4 hours and haven't heard anything". I'd pick up the chart and inform them that they arrived in the ER 47 minutes ago, and already had an IV, lab drawn, x rays performed and their doctor informed they were here. I would then be called a liar---"I know we've been here 4 hours". My only response was "Use a clock much????"
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Hmm... that happened to me at the ER room in Key West. I was there for three hours before they called me in for their "triage," or whatever it was. So three hours later when I still hadn't been seen and went to inquire, they said No, you've only been here three hours according to your chart. Of course, they based
their time on the triage time, not the time I signed in. Another three hours and I kicked up a fuss. So all told, I was there for 9 hours before they informed me there was no one there to run the diagnostic I needed.
So it depends on
whose clock you're using. And I wouldn't have put up with such a smart-ass response. These folks are in stressful situations.