• jetA
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    1 year ago

    It’s still strikes me as weird seeing billboards with live ER wait times advertised. It seems counterintuitive. And ER is for emergencies. If it’s an emergency it doesn’t matter what the wait time is. It’s not like you’re picking and choosing. But clearly people do. And then hospitals advertise their live ER wait times on a billboard, they want people to come to the emergency room now? I just don’t understand it

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      1 year ago

      A broken arm sucks ass but an extra half an hour drive to get seen 2 hours sooner seems like a good trade.

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        I’ve worked in ERs where on a really busy night patients with chest pain and a cardiac history that came in by ambulance went out to the lobby because their EKG was mostly okay and literally the only room open was the resuscitation bay. We kept checking on him in the lobby and did repeat EKGs until a room was available, but if there’s not space and they’re not dying, they’ll just have to wait.

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      I don’t understand it either. I think it’s usually the corporate owned and run ERs that have those billboards and the community hospital ERs just triage people as they come and offer no guarantees about wait times.

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        Dad was a lab tech at a hospital that gad the wait time. The only people who cared where upper management since it is a good advertisements