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Oh, please, have you been to the hospital? This is typical visit: check-in with security, wait in line, check-in with receptionist, wait, talk to the nurse assi

by vl 7y ago

Oh, please, have you been to the hospital? This is typical visit: check-in with security, wait in line, check-in with receptionist, wait, talk to the nurse assistant (wtf? I kid you not, now nurses have assistants!), wait, repeat exact same thing you said to assistant to the nurse, wait, see doctor for 5 minutes and repeat exact same thing again! How the fuck is it supposed to be efficient?

Red_Leaves_Flyy 7y ago
Why don't you go to urgent care instead? If you define why think you need a doctor you'll probably be fine at urgent care. If urgent care won't take you then you'll probably be seen quickly at a hospital.
- vl 7y ago
  Because it wasn’t an ER visit, it was an appointment.
evgen 7y ago
It is actually rather efficient, you just lack the wisdom to understand anything beyond your own narrow point of view. Check-in with security: Yes, because this is 'Merica and it has actually become necessary to do a preliminary screen to make sure you are not a raving nutjob. Check-in with receptionist: Enter you into the system, until this point is hit you are not even at the hospital as far as the system is concerned. Talk to nurse assistant: No, this is not just an assistant for a nurse, but rather a term used to describe someone who has a particular level of training and commensurate duties. A CNA can take vitals, ensure that they have the proper records for you (e.g. records say vi is a 45 year-old white male and we have a 60 year-old Latina, maybe we need to double-check things.) This is also the first real step in the triage process where someone with medical background can make a quick decision as to whether or not you need to be seen quickly or can wait. Talk to nurse: Ok, now we actually start doing more fine-grained examination and diagnosis. Chances are this is where the real diagnosis and treatment was decided, but you don't need to know this. Talk to doctor: Now someone who is very busy will take a few moments to examine you and make a decision. The nurse you talked to earlier put markup on your chart indicating what she noticed and found as well as possible standard treatments for same so the doctor was able to confirm that it was horses and not zebras and then sign off on the treatment. In a hospital all of that process you think of as inefficient does not give a shit about you or your time, it is trying to maximize the value and impact of the time that really matters in a hospital: the attention of doctors and RNs. The process may have been inconvenient for you, but it means that the people who matter at that hospital only spend their time where it is needed and trivial tasks or downtime are handled elsewhere in the process.
- bluGill 7y ago
  There might be too many layers, but those same layers mean that there are multiple people any one of which might notice that you are the rare 1 in a million case not the common thing with almost the same symptoms that they see hundreds of every week.

by vl 7y ago

Red_Leaves_Flyy 7y ago

Why don't you go to urgent care instead? If you define why think you need a doctor you'll probably be fine at urgent care. If urgent care won't take you then you'll probably be seen quickly at a hospital.

vl 7y ago
Because it wasn’t an ER visit, it was an appointment.

evgen 7y ago

It is actually rather efficient, you just lack the wisdom to understand anything beyond your own narrow point of view. Check-in with security: Yes, because this is 'Merica and it has actually become necessary to do a preliminary screen to make sure you are not a raving nutjob. Check-in with receptionist: Enter you into the system, until this point is hit you are not even at the hospital as far as the system is concerned. Talk to nurse assistant: No, this is not just an assistant for a nurse, but rather a term used to describe someone who has a particular level of training and commensurate duties. A CNA can take vitals, ensure that they have the proper records for you (e.g. records say vi is a 45 year-old white male and we have a 60 year-old Latina, maybe we need to double-check things.) This is also the first real step in the triage process where someone with medical background can make a quick decision as to whether or not you need to be seen quickly or can wait. Talk to nurse: Ok, now we actually start doing more fine-grained examination and diagnosis. Chances are this is where the real diagnosis and treatment was decided, but you don't need to know this. Talk to doctor: Now someone who is very busy will take a few moments to examine you and make a decision. The nurse you talked to earlier put markup on your chart indicating what she noticed and found as well as possible standard treatments for same so the doctor was able to confirm that it was horses and not zebras and then sign off on the treatment. In a hospital all of that process you think of as inefficient does not give a shit about you or your time, it is trying to maximize the value and impact of the time that really matters in a hospital: the attention of doctors and RNs. The process may have been inconvenient for you, but it means that the people who matter at that hospital only spend their time where it is needed and trivial tasks or downtime are handled elsewhere in the process.

bluGill 7y ago
There might be too many layers, but those same layers mean that there are multiple people any one of which might notice that you are the rare 1 in a million case not the common thing with almost the same symptoms that they see hundreds of every week.