Socialized medicine - 8 hour ER time wait is the GOAL....
If that doesn’t tell you anything, I don’t know what will.
Well they have to do something about emergency room wait times in our area.
You go to the ER around here and your wait is ZERO.
They are all over you the instant you walk in the door.
That really needs a government takeover.
Honest to goodness! I worked as an RN in the huge Emergency Room at Johns Hopkins (back in the day, don’t know what it is now) but at that time although we averaged about 65 pts coming in per hr, the wait time was seldom longer than 30 minutes—real emergencies were taken care of right away. What they need is a triage system, where one person is assigned to evaluate each person coming in and make the decision of what to do with them. Some were sent directly to the OR, some were seen right away by the Cardiology Dept, and so on.
<Socialized medicine - 8 hour ER time wait is the GOAL....
<If that doesn’t tell you anything, I don’t know what will.
No kidding. I came in to post about that, but you beat me to it. WTF? I’ve had to visit the ER a couple of times recently and if I’d had to wait 8 hrs I’d have killed someone or security would have killed me.
I can’t imagine being in the ER in extreme, undiagnosed pain; having a broken limb; a vomiting child; etc. and being told to wait 8 hours. The medical professionals should be ashamed.