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Originally Posted by graciegirl
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 |
That does not mean that there isn't a better way. If everyone just accepted things as the way it is then we would still be getting around in a horse and buggy. There is always a better way it just takes someone to discover it.