You would think they’d learn after the first two times. Another miscarriage in an ER waiting room:
Alberta Health Minister Iris Evans said Wednesday she’s “deeply concerned” that another woman has miscarried while waiting for help in a hospital emergency room — the third in three months.Evans said she is troubled that the latest case happened so soon after the Calgary Health Region outlined system changes to ensure it wouldn’t happen again.
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OK, maybe I’m a burned-out case, but I still can’t see why a first trimester miscarriage wants to see the ER at all. It isn’t as if there is any kiund of treatment lr cure available; most women would be more comfortable in their own homes.
Why they should command resources while myocardial infarctions are left dying or sub-arachnoidal hemorrhages are left for brain dead in the waiting room is beyond me.
I believe Ivan Ilitch once said something (in his “Medical Nemesis”) about “rather than expanding Healthcare the population ought to be trained to tolerate more pain”.
The way thngs are going now, the population are trained to tolerate absolutely nothing. Thank God I’ll retire soon.
I know a lot of docs who are right behind you.
There’s only so many patients that can be brought back “right now.” If you want to bring back every chest pain patient back immediately, and of course every (possible) stroke patient, and every asthmatic, and every _________, then sooner or later there is going to be a line in triage. That line usually starts forming by about 10 am, and by 6 pm the wait is often 6 hours or more.
In this case, the line was 30 patients. Yeah, it would have been nice to bring her back sooner, but it might not have been possible.
“That line usually starts forming by about 10 am, and by 6 pm the wait is often 6 hours or more.”
You must work in a quiet ER. In my ER, there’s no more breaks to define when the line starts and ends. It’s a”Hell in the Cell” 24 hours a day. We have 8 hour waits at 3 am. And the lawyers get away with their shit despite the fact we’re in such a massive unmanageable crisis.
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