Having worked in a busy ER for a number of years, I can relate to the frustration of health care providers with people who make multiple presentations when they have nothing seriously wrong with them.
I have experienced many situations where these same people have presented with an acute medical problem. If we had handled them in the the same manner as this poor lady, many would have probably met their demise, as she did.
I do emphasize with the frustration of providing medical care for illegal aliens,but they are after all, human beings that deserve some caring and compassion.
Yes I agree, you are heartless.
It’s just that I have a heart for people who are reasonably responsible members of society, or who are so profoundly disabled through no fault of their own (or so young) that they must be completely dependent on others. It’s not that I have no feelings of compassion whatsoever for the rest, but it’s getting really scary in hospitals, where responsible people are routinely killed by delays and errors, many of which wouldn’t have happened if there weren’t such huge resources being diverted to scammers, criminals, etc.
Nobody should be left writhing in pain (including the woman in this story). We can easily afford morphine drips for everybody. But we certainly don’t need to be giving heart transplants to convicted murderers, and there are plenty of less extreme examples where we should be able to out people at the back of the line, or even out of the line altogether. Like gangbangers who assault ER staff. The medical profession should have more heart for its own staff, and for the patched up gangbangers’ next victims, and for the responsible people waiting for urgent medical care, than for the gangbangers. Failure to make choices like these is resulting in a medical care system that is so overstressed and broken that patients like the one in this story don’t even a get a morphine drip to keep them comfortable while they die.