{COVID-19} Coronavirus Pandemic: Toilet Paper Rationing

[Ker]

So we just finished 7 hours of emergency perpetration if it hit big. Anyhow funny story all passengers are in 2 weeks quarantine now, but it’s a 5 star hotel and rooms cost 400$ a day. They also won’t pay a cent after discharged lol.

[Restrat]

As someone who does a lot of autopsies, it's definitely been my experience that many people do not seek treatment or go to a doctor until their symptoms are severe for a wide variety of conditions, from chronic problems to infections; this is especially pronounced at the city hospitals we cover where most patients are uninsured. I wouldn't be surprised if a majority of the cases we do in patients under say 75 would have had a different outcome had gotten care sooner. How the US health system influences that... don't think it's possible to say for sure

[Boyiee]

Literally every American goes to the emergency room, not a walk in or quick care or clinic, the emergency room, for a fucking stubbed toe or a 99.8 temperature at 3am.

Ya know what, let me rephrase that.

Literally everyone in America, because it's not just Americans.

I banged my shoulder so I can't walk. Fuck you. I do not miss doing ems.

They are finally changing insurances to punish people for overusing the emergency room and pushing them to use walk ins and urgent cares instead. But most don't.

[Boyiee]

Hey man I have severe back pain I can't move or get out of bed I know it's 3am but I gotta go to the ER and you have to carry me.

How long have you had this pain?

3 weeks.

And you have to go right now, couldn't call sooner? And you can't move at all? But you've clearly been getting up and going to the bathroom cause you're not covered in your own piss and shit.

Fuck you patients Every. Single. Night.

[Cail]

All of the prior 2 posts....oh god....

[Boyiee]

People are the worst basically. Healthcare system sucks.

[Boyiee]

Cail the best is "I was discharged an hour ago with these antibiotics but they aren't doing anything I want you to take me back to the emergency room."

No.

[Heavencloud]

Literally every American goes to the emergency room, not a walk in or quick care or clinic, the emergency room, for a fucking stubbed toe or a 99.8 temperature at 3am.

Ya know what, let me rephrase that.

Literally everyone in America, because it's not just Americans.

I banged my shoulder so I can't walk. Fuck you. I do not miss doing ems.

They are finally changing insurances to punish people for overusing the emergency room and pushing them to use walk ins and urgent cares instead. But most don't.

I hope people keep coming to the ED... I need a paycheck. Critical care time can't make up for volume.

[Cail]

Cail the best is "I was discharged an hour ago with these antibiotics but they aren't doing anything I want you to take me back to the emergency room."

No.

We have 2 hospitals about 5 blocks from each other, owned/operated by the same hospital. At least once a week, someone calls from literally outside 1 ER and wants to go to the other

[Boyiee]

Oh yeah lol, they didn't do anything or enough for me there, take me to the other.

[Cail]

What do you mean I have to go to the Waiting Room? I came in by ambulance!

[synistar]

I don't know how the fuck people do ER visits over urgent care. It's a $15 copay for urgent care vs. $85 for the ER visit on a Medicare plan.

On that note, I find it sad that at the ER my brother works at, they constantly get people driven in by UBERs and Lyfts. I guess it's a whole lot cheaper than the non-emergency AMBULNZ rides in their teal colored ambulances. Yes, Ambulnz is a company

[arus2001]

Part of it is just people desperately trying to find clever solutions to a shitty system. Then again, there are also shitty people like my sister who's now been banned from seeing two doctors within the past week because she can't reign in her Karen energy.

[Jaybar]

I likely herniated a disk while working out (in poor form) two weeks ago. I could not tie my shoes so I stayed home and downed a lot of ibuprofen. A week later I decided I should do some physical therapy. I am feeling a lot better but I knew it wasnt something requiring emergency care.

I agree some people are over cautious and aren't educated enough about their body and treatment. Maybe we should do something about that in our education system...

[Tarage]

When I first had kidney stones as a kid I was begging to go to the hospital and my parents said "It's just a stomach ache." I said I'd crawl to the hospital. Turns out it was kidney stones, one of the most painful things I can imagine that doesn't involve traumatic limb amputation.

I think the only time I've ever been to the ER was when I was really young and I fell off of my dad's truck into the concrete and fucked up my face. I still have the scars. Otherwise, no, never been. No urgent care. No nothing outside of my normal primary. I'm the outlier I guess.

[Kalmado]

As an adult I've been to the ER twice. Once when I was for certain I had alcohol poisoning and I was begging them to pump my stomach. Second time was waking up in the middle of the night with extreme pain pulsing from my hip to my toes in my left leg. That leg had been hurting occasionally but I figured it was because I'm overweight and getting out of a car that sits a few inches off the ground wasn't helping. Turned out to be gout.

I know this is going to sound stupid but I don't 100% trust doctors. It's not that I think I know better or what not. I've just had some things happen where doctors haven't listened and ignore things and then bad things happen. So about the gout I possibly could've seen my doctor when I noticed abnormal pain in my left leg and they possibly could've diagnosed it as gout. Or they could've said I'm just overweight and I need to go walk in the mall after work. I know I'm being a jerk in a way. I'm just not optimistic when it comes to seeing healthcare people.

[synistar]

Same on the trust issues. The ER nurses and doctor tried to discharge my dad asap when he was still bleeding from his mouth (been about 3 hours at that point) and they finally got a mouth/nose/neck specialist to take him up for surgery to stop the bleeding.

Specialist found the cancer though when he wasn't required to do a biopsy. Those ER nurses were just rushing to get people out of beds and mail it in for their shift change.

[Heavencloud]

Remember in the ER we're focused on things that are life or limb threatening. Leg pain won't kill you (99% of the time). We are hesitant to give you diagnoses we can't prove (i.e. I can't truly diagnose you with Gout unless I do an arthrocentesis).

[kuronosan]

Remember in the ER we're focused on things that are life or limb threatening. Leg pain won't kill you (99% of the time). We are hesitant to give you diagnoses we can't prove (i.e. I can't truly diagnose you with Gout unless I do an arthrocentesis).

Yep.

[synistar]

I know. If only the urgent care was open at 2am. Nope, sign said go to the ER. Would have gotten admitted a whole lot faster.