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We need to start turning people away from the Emergency Room. Stubbed toes, runny noses and headaches are for drop-in clinics.
I watched a man and his wife drive in; he drove – she must be the one right? Nope, he registers. A woman is on the phone stating she is in “excruciating pain” yet she carried on a long conversation with the caller – and after, another waiting patient.
If you can drive yourself to emergency, you don’t need to be there. Your pain is not excruciating if you can chit chat about gardens, grandchildren and other how long the other person is married.
I see it this way: you are referred to emergency by a doctor or if the triage assessment determines if your hang nail pain is indeed excruciating. If not, out you go! —Hospital Overlord
This article appears in May 26 – Jun 1, 2016.
Reasonable bitch, except the doctor referal thing, that makes no sense. I hate to say it but the worst culprits are mothers who bring their child in everytime they have the sniffles.
Most of the losers that go to the ER equate “going to the doctor” with going to the ER. Can you imagine if some welfare case went to the ER and got turned away so an actual tax payer could use the service they PAY for? Oh, the fucking humanity! I can just see all the SJWs out in front of province house, picketing for equal healthcare while the welfare bums are at home getting drunk and making more babies so they can get a raise.
My largest expense is my tax bill, both income and property taxes and I’m getting pretty sick of listening to lazy-ass welfare cases complain that they’re poor and life isn’t fair. How about waiting behind a bunch of freeloaders with the sniffles, while holding your fingers in a cooler full of ice?
Socialized health care, I’m sick of being taxed to death to pay for people like that. I wish this was more like the states get educated get a job and buy private insurance. A friend went to the ER with a kidney infection (she’s had a transplant) waits five hours to see a dr while some fuck with a broken pinky goes in first.
Someone actually brought a child to emerge to get a couple stitches out. This is when you know the system is fucked. Why was the parent not redirected from triage to a walk in clinic or the family doctor?
i actually think all emergency rooms should have a walk in clinic connected to them just like drugs stores do. When in triage if it is not a real emergency the triage nurse sends you to the walk in clinic to get in line. Problem solved
@Malok, if you like the system in the states, why don’t you move there?? What’s holding you back? I agree the Canadian system has its drawbacks, but what system doesn’t.
I’d love to, and probably will at some point.