I work in an ER in a small town. We are a branch of a much larger hosptial in a larger neighboring town. We see people every night with the diagonsis of pharyngitis, or sinusitus, or otitis meida, or conjunctivitis. (In lay terms thats a sore throat, or stuffy nose, or ear ache, or pink eye.) These people get quite upset that they sometimes have to wait longer because people come in with chest pain (and they are having a heart attack) or their arm is bent in a place it isn't supposed to be bent, or a woman only 22 weeks pregnant and in labor and these people are seen before them. What is their definition of an Emergency Room? We are not a doctor's office or the local county Health Department. And then when they check out without insurance they are shocked that they are asked to pay the bill. What is the mentality here? I just don't get it...
2006-10-29
19:50:37
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