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Originally Posted by gardeniagirl
My permanent home is in Winston Salem, NC, home of Wake Forest Baptist Hospital(university teaching hospital). I've gone to the Emergency Room for myself twice, husband went twice, mother (92 yrs. old) twice last year).....six visits. ALL of them required no more than 20 minutes wait time. Admitting is done by an ER nurse, who determines the severity. With mom diagnosed quickly with sepsis, blood pressure dropping rapidly, (blood poisoning all over her body), they told me to stand back and the ER team went to work as if they were saving the Gov. of the state....they were fast, efficient, as they were in the other five instances, saved her life twice last year. Wake Forest Baptist rates #22 in the Nation for hospitals, second in the state to Duke University Hospital by one point, and the care is phenominal. Mother is a medicaid patient, and they sent for an air mattress for her due to bed sores from the nursing home she was in. I can't say enough great things about good hospitals. I've heard enough about this one to pray everytime I come down, that I don't need them......
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Please. It's called "triage" and it's how every ER works, with some doing a better job than others. We are ALL from states that have major teaching-research hospitals like this nearby, as we have here in Orlando and Gainesville areas. We go there when referred by our own doctors for the bigger, more complex or rare problems.
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there, "stand back" and let 4 dozen interns, medical students, nursing students, residents, and specialists in training come in to get experience on you all day and night, and hope they are giving the top-notch specialist in charge an accurate assessment of the patient.
Yes, these teaching/research hospitals are some of the crown jewels of this country and the world, but comparing them to a good community hospital is simply comparing apples to oranges.
Most people in need of an urgent care or ER will be fine at an established community hospital employing board-certified doctors. They are listed in the hospitals' departmental staff bio listings.