Orlando Sentinel Sunday front page discussing the "bold marketing campaign" to require patients to be seen within one hour of arrival. The articles continues to state that hospitals are still not meeting this time table, and suggests its because of the rising number of "Uninsured Americans."
As an EMT working in the field, AND time working strictly in the ER, this"problem" with waiting NEVER gets the attention that it actually needs. In Europe they tried to mandate the wait time for their ERs and in order to meet the rules, Ambulances and EMS simply waited with patients in the parking lot and kept them stable until the actual ER was ready to meet the time constraint. Now instead of a wait at the ER we have a delay in EMS and Advanced Life Support (ALS) out in the field. All so the hospital's numbers look good!
Americans (and those who use the system that are NOT citizens) flood the ERs with non-critical, and hardly Acute cases. Teething children, muscle aches and pains, and splinters in your thumb hold up a system never designed for such purposes, and many of the uninsured (American or otherwise) will actually wait until Acute Care centers close before seeking medical attention and go to the ER where now they can't be sent back.
Not to mention that Doctors walk around with targets on their backs with a Tort system waiting in the wings to file suit against them for not dotting that I or crossing that T. I've seen first hand people who upon having their very lives saved, end up retaining laywers because of the scar left behind from not wearing their seatbelt and then eating a windshield!
If Capital Hill has time to investigate Baseball for juicing players, or football for filming the other team, MAYBE we might have time to start working on our medical system. Currently their answer is to socialize the system, and then your waits will truely be longer, and the dirty little secret.... you won't be able to sue a single Govt. furnished doctor...
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