Emergency in the Emergency Rooms

redstate.org ^ | 28 September 2005 | Nick Danger

[NautiNurse]

Story written by FR's Nick Danger. I attended the rally at the Capitol yesterday. Crowd estimates were between 3500-4000+ ER physicians, and ER nurses too. It was a sea of white lab coats, and it was a sight to behold.

These men and women are dedicated to providing each and every one of us with the best emergency care available in the world. However, they can not continue to work for free, in overcrowded facilities. Thus, they traveled at their own expense to Washington D.C., to alert the nation to a very dangerous situation. Unfortunately, this rally did not rate the local D.C. news.

More info www.acep.org, see breaking news. Ladies Home Journal has a relevant article in their October 2005 edition, they supported this event too.

Took this photo while the crowd was still gathering yesterday morning:

[NautiNurse]

Most of you know I have been out-of-pocket for the past several days. This is why...

Heard first hand Hurricane Katrina reports from the Chief of Emergency Medicine at Charity Hospital in New Orleans, and an Emergency Physician member of the DMAT team at the New Orleans airport. These are amazing people, and they need your help.

[Bahbah]

So this is what you have been up to, my dear. Well, good for you. Just remember, liberals care so much about the poor that they want to help these critical care givers to join them. We should all be equal, n'est pas? That is a great picture, by the way. I hope to heck they get some attention.

[who knows what evil?]

Great article...hope others take notice.

[abner]

Wow to you AND to Nicks great article!

[OldFriend]

And of course, this too, was on all the news broadcasts.

[NautiNurse]

And of course, this too, was on all the news broadcasts.

Nada

[dakine]

Is this the Hurricane list?

Absolutely no interest in this ping...

[pitinkie]

Yes my Hubby went to Texas with his DMAT instead of being there..its important!

[NautiNurse]

So this is what you have been up to, my dear.

heh--and you thought I was on vacation...

;o)

[Flyer]

Y'all kick ass!

[OldFriend]

I'm just practicing lying so I can get a job with the MSM.

In all seriousness tho, our state has a fund to pay hospitals for uninsured patients.

[don-o]

This is vital infrastuucture that needs to be shored up.

Bill would be chump change compared what we are sending to Blanco.

[NautiNurse]

Bill would be chump change compared what we are sending to Blanco.

Yep

[Kimmers]

This is not just the case with ER docs it is happening all specialties. My husband was a professor in a teaching hospital and also had a private practice. We had not been paid out of the practice in over two years.It is going to be increasingly difficult to find good medical care,docs are retiring early or in some cases becoming truck drivers, true story.

The bigger concern, is who is left in the teaching hospitals. These docs are quitting to go into private practice. It used to be the best and the brightest used to teach, now if your smart you go into private practice.

[blam]

Congratulations on your a Nick's efforts.

[NautiNurse]

In those cases where there are some funds set aside for the uninsured, that money is not also allotted for the physicians. The hospitals have no obligation to share the wealth with the doctors.

[Dog Gone]

I've known about this problem for years. As the son of doctor who was on call all times of the day or night, I know how often he was called into the ER in the middle of the night and never got paid a cent. A younger brother of mine followed in his shoes, and it's the same deal only worse today.

The question is how often and how long do you expect doctor and other health care professionals to work for free? There is a limit.

[Radix]

I did not get to see the news today, again as is usual the case lately for me. Are you saying that 3500 Physicians protested and it was not on the news?

Pardon me for being out of touch on contemporary news items, but this seems like a big deal to me.

[Nathan Zachary]

I have a perfect solution. Lets let even more illegal immigrants into the country.

/s

The hospital should at the least be allowed to bill medicaide and therefore pay the ER staff. Fingerprinting these illegals should also occur at this time, just so they can be kept track of, regardless of what they change their names to

I'm also in favor of taxing ritch, big mouthed liberal hollywierdo's and politucians who pay little or no tax but whine about poor people, and expect the working poor to pay taxes to support these freeloaders.