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true-eurt
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Glad to here your brother is doing better Glen.
SonicAlbert
Super-Sonic "Herb" Albert
SouthSIDE Glen said:The irony with our hack medical system is that unless your medical emergency is on the highest order - e.g. a shotgun blast to the face or extended exposure to Sean Combs - in a medical emergency the last place to get good treatment is in a medical emergency room.
Right, if you can wait until the next day and call your regular doctor you'll get it handled better. Your regular doctor might treat you or give you a referral to the hospital. But that's not always possible if the emergency is serious enough.
It also depends on the hospital. If you are in a big city with an under staffed and over worked ER, it's not going to be the most pleasant experience. ER's are closing all over the country, too, so that's not helping matters either.
But if you are near a good hospital that is not in a heavy urban area, or is just plain very well run, then things get a lot better. You didn't go to Cook County did you?
My Mom had a heart attack in a parking lot a few years ago, and her friend drove her to the nearest hospital. It was a good one, and within a very short time they had her in the OR undergoing a multiple bypass. Saved her life, and now she's just as active as she ever was. It really depends on what you have in your area.
SouthSIDE Glen
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Good to hear about your mom's successful rebound!SonicAlbert said:
Things must be a bit better out there in LA than they are here, because here it really doesn't matter which hospital you go to, it's a guaranteed minimum 6-hour ER experience, and usually closer to 9 hours. (And don't even *think* about getting sick on a Friday or Saturday.) The irony is that nowdays Cook County - well actually Cook County hospital has been upgraded to a brand new multi-multi-million dollar facility across the street now called Stroeger Hospital - is now rated one of the best ER and trauma hospitals in the city.
But no, I'm a lot further South Side than that
; that's not where we went, we went to a suburban hospital in a relatively upscale community, but things are no different there than at any other hospital. It's the system itself that they have set up. The problem is there are different levels and different types of "emergency", yet triage doesn't do much of a job of triaging, they just decide between "immediate action" and "he can wait". If you're not brought in on a stretcher with blood spurting all over the place, or with an EMT's monitor showing flatline, and you or your family don't give the right sales pitch to the triage nurse, you're pretty much put on a non-moving conveyer belt.The problem is there are often emergencies that can't wait for the family doctor - and for which he'd just send you to the ER anyway because they're too big of a situation for him to handle out of his office - that fall far below the hospital's threshold for requiring "immediate action". There's Life Threatening and LIFE THREATENING. If you're the former, you're sunk.
G.
7string
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Happy B-Day G.!
MadAudio
Damned if I do
Happy Belated, SSG! I've been out of town so I missed your b'day.