Comments for The ACUTE CARE Blog: Non-Urban Emergency Medicine

Comment on Video Shows Woman Ignored While Dying in New York Mental Hospital by Diana Lind

Diana Lind — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:13:24 +0000

If you do not have money or get caught up in one of these places you are out of luck.
I am appalled at the lack of conscience people have working in these places. It is a management problem. They have to hire whoever will take the job and not follow up that they can do the job. It seems to be rampant in the health field today.
These people seem to be stupid or so non interested that they just show up for work.
So you do not like immigrants? I bet I could find a whole crew to take their place that would actually work. What a concept. No talking on the cell phone or walking around acting like your at work but actually working. Again, where is the management at hese places.
You would expect this in a third world country.

Comment on Video Shows Woman Ignored While Dying in New York Mental Hospital by John S. in Baltimore

John S. in Baltimore — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:43:24 +0000

I should have added that the lack of response by both patients and workers is appalling. Too many of us just don’t care about other people. We demand that everyone respond to our own needs, but when it comes to others it’s hooray for me, to hell with you.

Comment on Video Shows Woman Ignored While Dying in New York Mental Hospital by John S. in Baltimore

John S. in Baltimore — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:40:59 +0000

In America, unless you’re wearing a dollar sign on your back, don’t expect prompt treatment from the health care industry. Money first, life second. That’s how it is in America. If some of you think this makes me sound like an America-hater, give me a reason not to hate it. Our health care system needs an overhaul, not little band aids around the edges.

Comment on An Open Request to Everyone Who Works in an Emergency Room by docdevil

docdevil — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:53:53 +0000

Well for starters …
1. A reasonable amount of data is able to be obtained with such a short open ended question.
Patients would try to justify why they came to seek non emergent / urgent ailments in the EMERGENCY dept. and doctors / paramedics can understand their problems.

eg. 2 weeks of abdominal pain .. seen GP twice taken conservative meds, partially resolved, and currently came to emergency because the pain has progressively worsens over 1 day …

(so you see … those with true problems will surely have good reasons to seek the help from the emergency dept)

but … for those who comes for viral fever for 1 day to the emergency dept, in the early morning bacause they want to take medical certificate leaves in which …. after examination has not even a temperature … worthy enough to be sick, and blame getting better after a dose of paracetamol he bought over the counter …. well .. don’t you think that he could have just waited for the morning general practitioner to open and seek medical advice from them?

Unless you have a good reason to be upset, or you yourselves know that the reason YOU went to the emergency dept was unjustifiable…

Comment on CNN: Five Things Not To Do In The ER by RK Werner, MD, MS

RK Werner, MD, MS — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:18:39 +0000

You have got to be kidding! I guess I was right about CNN only caring about ratings and not the truth. You are right, you can call the administrator on call, and make everyone’s life miserable. Or…you can take a second before dialing and think about what is happening in the back area, behind the closed door. How many people are dying? How many people are having heart attacks? How many people are fighting for their lives and the 1 or 2 doctors in the department are at their bedside?
How important are your sniffles, cough, or year long abdominal pains now? Just because you narcotics doesn’t mean you need them (how many drug problems start this way). Just because your kid has a fever and you want antibiotics, doesn’t mean they need them (even the Amer. Acad. of Peds. has said to stop treating ear infections with antibiotics due to resistance). Burger King is down the street, get it your way there, in the ED I am trying to do what is medically right (what you need), not what you want!
Your story did a wonderful thing, while I was taking care of a REAL emergency (doing CPR on a young accident victim) a patient came into the room and asked me when I was going to come out a discharge her cause she felt she had been there long enough (30 minutes for a runny nose). I stopped CPR and looked at her, had a tech take over compressions, told the women that when the woman I was trying to save either died or lived, I would come out and send her home, no sooner. 10 minutes later an administrator called me, she said she was calling cause CNN told her it was ok. Her ONLY complaint, she waited too long to be cared for. She didn’t even care I yelled at her!
So CNN, be proud of yourself and your crappy reporting, you have set back ED departments and waiting times substantially. When medicine is socialized, you can stand proud knowing you helped get us there. In that system maybe you can do a story on how people who can not get in to a specialist for years (because they only see the minimally required number of patients to get paidsince there will be no incentive to see more).

Comment on Country (ER) Doc by Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:51:40 +0000

Now that’s alarming.

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