Heath care idea.

[Aileron]

Maybe. But a scraped knee or a sprained ankle is one thing. There was a story in the press here of a chronic migraine sufferer going to an ER. He was given panadeine or something and told to go home and lie down. The next morning he was dead. It is dangerous to ignore a person's fears and dismiss their illness as minor.

 

Well, its also dangerous to pull staff away from critically injured persons for patients with dumb injuries. Sure, if the ER sends people away there will be a select few who will die from it. However, there are undoubtedly a select few who are dying from misappropriation of medical resources.

 

There are some cases where I think its justified. The best cases I have seen is where the patient has been injured for a few days or even weeks and suddenly decided to come into the ER in the middle of the night. It didn't kill them before, and its REALLY unlikely that it will kill them.

 

However, I meant that they should be turned away strictly in the cases of the scraped knees and sprained ankles. Other cases should be admitted just in case.

[»Ducky]

I am starting to misunderstand the situation.

A doctor isn't going to tear away from open heart surgery to put a bandaid on someone.

(Hense the waiting in general)

 

A doctor doesn't stand by the bed of an ill patient for all minutes of the day.

So why is the run from medical exam room A less important than the run from file room B. He is going to be somewhere, and when something occurs with an overnight patient, a journey still must be made.

[Aileron]

Well, the problem is that if the waiting room is filled with scraped knee patients C, D, E, F, G, H, and I, the doctor may rush through heart patient A. Or if those patients came before A even showed up, the doctor may be fatigued.

 

Priotizing patients keeps our ERs functioning, but there would be fewer problems if they could turn away just the extremely uninjured patients.