The emergency room
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It depends on what size the hospital is. We have a smaller hospital 12 minutes from home and I haven't been to their emergency room but the hospital itself is really small. The hospital I prefer to use is a bigger one and it's a teaching hospital so there are always tons of people milling around the place.
Most ERs take forever to get seen and the wait with everyone around you coughing, moaning, etc is really a horrible experience.
Most ERs take forever to get seen and the wait with everyone around you coughing, moaning, etc is really a horrible experience.
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One hospital where I was a chaplain had a separate emergency room for pediatrics and another for adults. The adult one had four areas of 10 beds each and a trauma room with three beds and a triage area with 15 beds with a curtain separating those triage areas.
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Mine is a small town hospital but very well equipped. The ER is a ward with seven treatment rooms. It is staffed on a rotational basis by the local physicians but when they are short-staffed they can call in a full time ER specialist. My family doctor is the go to bone setter for fractures. Very serious cases are taken to nearby large hospitals some of which are specialized to handle certain types of cases.
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Not a place I tend to visit regularly but the one and only time I used it was painless enough. I'd slipped doing a DIY job and gashed myself so went off to the ER to get it stitched up again. I'd dressed the wound myself but figured it would probably need stitches.
With the benefit of hindsight I suspect they fast-tracked me over a few other people in the waiting room when they asked me how much pain I was in and I said it stung a bit but didn't hurt much. From what I gather they have a few people they call the frequent flyers who are usually only after strong pain meds. The triage nurse mentioned they have a few people who go in there, somewhat light-hearted about how they hurt themselves, and then claim they are at 9 or 10 out of 10 on the pain scale (10 roughly means you can do little aside from howl about how much it hurts - if you have any sense of humor remaining at all you aren't at 10 on the scale). I rated my pain as maybe a 1, possibly not that high.
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Coming back to this old thread...
3 of our local smaller hospitals are closing...because of Covid. Yeah, Covid. The reason is that they didn't get enough business the past 2 years in order to pay the bills with the lack of people coming in for surgeries, electives shut down, etc.
Now there are thousands of us who have to drive farther in order to go to the ER and when minutes count, this is really a scary situation.
Some hospitals might be filled to capacity because of covid, but not all. Some are shutting down.
3 of our local smaller hospitals are closing...because of Covid. Yeah, Covid. The reason is that they didn't get enough business the past 2 years in order to pay the bills with the lack of people coming in for surgeries, electives shut down, etc.
Now there are thousands of us who have to drive farther in order to go to the ER and when minutes count, this is really a scary situation.
Some hospitals might be filled to capacity because of covid, but not all. Some are shutting down.
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But, but, but, didn't High Lord Forki-tongue assure us that all this was necessary? For our own good, and because science?
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Exactly, follow the science, but only the science that Google, Twitter, Facebook, MSN, CNN, etc. tell you. Surely we would not want to do our own digging and think for our selves. Always better to let Lord Forki Toung (Fauci? or the Devil, does it really make a difference) tell us what is best for him, er ah us. We should all automatically obey anyone who proclaims to be an authority, after all don't most churches say Romans 13 tells us to? But when any joker with a government position feigns to proclaim law apart from proper process, they need to be ignored.
ERs should be doing quite well if they are willing to play the COVID game. Lot of free money for jamming a vent down someone;s throat. Yes, the good hospitals, those that will not malpractice, will suffer because the general population has been made afraid to go to the hospital for elective surgery. I avoid the hospital now because many of them are like death camps. I also avoid the hospital and doctor's office because they are still requiring masks, and I refuse to wear a mask and join the Covid cult.
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Yes, the science that says a child aged 8 is deadly. Or harmless. It depends which side of the Atlantic the child is. Because science.
We need to keep six feet apart from each other to prevent transmission. Unless you listen to the Europeans who figured more like three feet. Because science.
Then came the really silly rules. The virus is clever enough to know whether someone ordering a drink also ordered a meal, and left them alone while they ate. Only once they finished eating would it attack them, presumably giving them fair chance to put a sock on their head again. It's a very clever virus, and very considerate too.
Then there's the revelation that cloth masks are ineffective against the new omicron variant. So previous variants were stopped by a mask, to the point that they were legally mandated. Yet some mutations to the spike proteins, so small you probably wouldn't even see them under a microscope, somehow taught it to weave its way through a cloth mask. Thankfully it didn't learn how to weave its way through a surgical mask because they apparently still work. Let's hope the next variant doesn't gain a few new mutations that teach it how to work its way through a surgical mask.
The vaccine itself is becoming almost comical. The people who got the vaccine are apparently not protected from those who did not, so the answer is to force the people who are unprotected in order to protect the people who are already protected. If that doesn't work fire all the people who don't get the vaccine. The front-line medical staff who worked through the first stages of the pandemic without even having adequate PPE while everybody hailed them as heroes are now so selfish for being hesitant to take the vaccine that they don't deserve a job at all.
The simple fact that the virus had reached the east coast while the government claimed it was confined to the Pacific Northwest is a pretty good reason to be suspicious of anything else the government has to say on the topic.
We need to keep six feet apart from each other to prevent transmission. Unless you listen to the Europeans who figured more like three feet. Because science.
Then came the really silly rules. The virus is clever enough to know whether someone ordering a drink also ordered a meal, and left them alone while they ate. Only once they finished eating would it attack them, presumably giving them fair chance to put a sock on their head again. It's a very clever virus, and very considerate too.
Then there's the revelation that cloth masks are ineffective against the new omicron variant. So previous variants were stopped by a mask, to the point that they were legally mandated. Yet some mutations to the spike proteins, so small you probably wouldn't even see them under a microscope, somehow taught it to weave its way through a cloth mask. Thankfully it didn't learn how to weave its way through a surgical mask because they apparently still work. Let's hope the next variant doesn't gain a few new mutations that teach it how to work its way through a surgical mask.
The vaccine itself is becoming almost comical. The people who got the vaccine are apparently not protected from those who did not, so the answer is to force the people who are unprotected in order to protect the people who are already protected. If that doesn't work fire all the people who don't get the vaccine. The front-line medical staff who worked through the first stages of the pandemic without even having adequate PPE while everybody hailed them as heroes are now so selfish for being hesitant to take the vaccine that they don't deserve a job at all.
The simple fact that the virus had reached the east coast while the government claimed it was confined to the Pacific Northwest is a pretty good reason to be suspicious of anything else the government has to say on the topic.