Posted on 01/08/2023 11:56:56 AM PST by nickcarraway
It is a domino effect. Hospitals are overcrowded and understaffed. No beds available means patients are backed up in the ER. When the ER is oveflowing, the ambulances are stacked up in the ambulance bay waiting to unload. When the ambulances can’t unload patients, they aren’t available to pick you up, or your wife/brother/mother/child who has chest pain or respiratory distress.
“ Now her heartbroken fiancé is calling for government intervention before more people lose their lives in the NHS health crisis.“
Call the arsonist to put out the fire. Good plan…
It’s what happens when you overwork staff and pay them diddly squat. Nobody wants to go into the medical field in socialized countries for those very reasons, aside from a handful of martyrs.
Who wants to spend 10-12 years learning a specialty like vascular surgery and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on that 10-12 years then earn bupkiss doing it?
I’m genuinely asking. Who?
Winner, winner, radstag dinner.
Could you imagine needing dialysis there? Good God.
No cabs
No ride companies
No friends or neighbors with a vehicle?
This is why the west is dying
Ok, so you call a cab to take you to the overcrowded ER, with patients on gurneys spilled out along the hallways waiting for hours. Critical Care beds upstairs are full. Now what?
I don’t understand why they waited for an ambulance.
While Americans are bankrupted by health care costs, the beauty of socialized medicine is that the health care you don’t get is absolutely free.
NHS - where people go to die...even if they have to wait for the ambulance for 11 hours to take them there to die!!!
Not looking that crowded to me:
https://data.thenewsstar.com/covid-19-hospital-capacity/florida/12/
Where in FL do you have such overcrowded hospitals?
charming; but what the heck, there should be triage nurses and those in danger should be seen immediately
My Dad had a stroke. Mom drove him to the ER on Seattle. Dad laid in the ER for 6 hours. For a stroke.
He died 6 months later.
Learn emergency first aid. Assume the hospital will be unavailable
There's an old saying in people that have CF....it takes two to TANGO....And if he never got tested....that's a ignorant moron.
I could be wrong........
No matter how many UK’ers die like this, the average UK’er will get into fistfight with you if you criticize NHS. They are so emotionally bought into the correctness & superior morality of socialized medicine actual facts don’t matter.
You get her on o2. And perhaps treatment while on gurney. That is what happens here.
For God’s sake don’t queue up. Shake some trees.
Funny, the first hospital I looked for isn’t on your map. Big university hospital too. Looks like your reference to prove me wrong has holes in it.
Yes, and there is a dire shortage of nurses. I know of a hospital that regularly pulls residents into triage due to nursing shortage for the past two years.
“The data, which comes for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, updates weekly.”
Not only coming, but already arriving in the U.S. Emergency services are limited already to the point that in some states burglaries responses are non-existent and you are told to fill out a form on-line.
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