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Originally Posted by dillywho

Thank you for thinking of those other people waiting for rooms.



Unfortunately, the hospital cannot chance pulling the ER doctor away from there long enough to dismiss patients. My guess is, and it is only a guess, that the ER doc comes by at the end of his/her shift and does dismissals. Just because their shift has ended, does not mean that they can hang it up and go home. The same holds true for everyone there. They are simply lucky when they can. Many of the nurses are there after their shifts to finish up the paperwork required at dismissal for their patients. By then, the next shift is seeing to the ones not getting to go home. Too many of us are from occupations that when the clock says it is quitting time, we quit. That never has been, nor will it ever be, in the medical profession.



With the current shortage of doctors and nurses, it may be a while before there is much relief nationwide. Only the truly dedicated are even entering the field, when there are less demanding and lucrative jobs to be had.

It’s not the ER doc who discharges patients, it’s a hospitalist- a doc employed by the hospital to care for admitted patients. In many cases the hospitalist is a specialist of one type or another who works hospital shifts for extra money.


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