New discharge planning strategy: Paying people to go home

January 18, 2007

An ER physician offers patients in a crowded ER $10 if they went home.

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1 Anonymous January 18, 2007 at 1:01 pm: Apparently some took him up on it. And it was CAD 10.00.
2 Anonymous January 18, 2007 at 4:05 pm: the whining lady in the story should have been happy. It gave her a chance that her wait would be shortened
3 Rich, MD January 18, 2007 at 4:06 pm: This is not a new idea. Read The House of God by Samuel Shem.
4 Gasman January 18, 2007 at 4:25 pm: It’s hard to take the article seriously because it is written with grade school level misspellings and grammar errors.

a emergency = an emergency
council ed = counseled
doctor’s = doctors (plural not possessive)
due = do
there = their
doctor’s = doctors
sault =Sault
With this many facts not checked by the author, one can only guess at the thoroughness of the original reporting.
5 Bad Shift January 19, 2007 at 12:46 pm: I don’t understand the complaint–was the offer too low?
6 Anonymous January 23, 2007 at 1:07 am: We threaten to post a “Free Beer At (Competing Hospital)” sign on the front window at triage. Ten bucks is just a little more direct.