With most of the country’s emergency rooms reporting long waits for patients to be admitted, programs in North Carolina and elsewhere let some patients be monitored and treated at home instead of in the hospital. NBC’s Anne Thompson reports.
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My local er is mainly filled with homeless/mentally ill people looking for a place to either stay warm/get fed or looking for a bed a long term care facility.
Leading me to just go to urgent care when i have a issue and they'll send me to the hospital for admission if they need too. I started that after I went to the er and waited overnight in the waiting room with no checks after the ambulance brought me to the er. Just for the er to give me a bed for 5 hours then kick me out because "i was faking it". When i returned the next day to urgent care they sent me to the more intensive ICU department at the hospital because I was not faking it
I was with my father 24 hours a day, except when commercial home healthcare workers came in once a day so I could sleep. His primary care gave him his wish: euthanasia. We saved the farm.
I’m a kidney transplant recipient and former Los Angeles resident. I can attest to the 24+ hour wait times in the ER. The hospital staff, including doctors, treat patients like animals. They’re so cynical from being overworked and understaffed. I moved out of state and have great health care now but I’ll never forget how awful and inhumane LA’s health system is.
Here in my part of FL a couple of the hospitals still have an ER room but they also have an off site 24 hr ER room miles away from the hospital. It helps cut down on the hospital ER being overwhelmed and response time.
Real Doctors use to make House Calls. Whatever happened to that???
When I was a Kid I use to go visit patients with My Dad on his way to the hospital to see the ones there.
Can I here we go with the stuff that might may or may not be related with covid or may or may not be related to an election season here we go let the fun begin