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Originally Posted by fw102807
The issue for me is not having to wait a few more hours but patients in the ER waiting for a bed and patients waiting to get in the ER because of the backup. As was said there has to be a better way.
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Patients in the ER have a bed and a small room once they are seen at TVRH.... But it is a room and you are constantly watched. ER's all over the country are clogged and there are waits due to the severe flu and here it is worse because people get sicker because they are away from their primary care physician and end up in emergency. It is still Triage. Breathing emergencies are number one...Cardiac and severe bleeding next. Pain is awful but not always life threatening. Sometimes we have to try and see outside the awfulness that is happening to us.
Emergency rooms are jammed everywhere and some of it is because people do not consult a physician when they aren't THAT sick.
long waits in emergency room. - Bing