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I wonder if anything else might have happened around 2020 to increase ER wait times due to lack of beds in the hospital? They might be awful scum; don't know.
by devilbunny 3y ago
I wonder if anything else might have happened around 2020 to increase ER wait times due to lack of beds in the hospital?
They might be awful scum; don't know. But ER's are very, very expensive places to keep patients waiting for a bed. The claim that nursing shortages in the hospital drove this is not implausible. And when nurses can make several times as much money doing travel nursing in big cities, how's a place like Bristol going to compete? They wouldn't have left their families for $10-20 more per hour; they left for four to five times the money per hour. Or even more.
Rich, big cities absolutely used their financial means to make sure they had nurses. Where did they come from? Small, poor cities and rural areas. In peak COVID, there were nurses being offered $10k/week with free housing. A brutal schedule to match the pay, of course, but if you live in Bristol, a month away would pay for a year of college for a child.
- rpmisms 3y agoYou seem to think Bristol is still low-COL. It's on par with a typical metro now.
- geraldwhen 3y agoI’m looking at house prices, and it is not.
- rpmisms 3y agoTypical metro, not California metro.
- forgetfreeman 3y agoWelcome to the rest of the country. It's pretty nice here. Just, um, try not to get sick or anything.
- rpmisms 3y agoPretty much, yeah.
- vkou 3y agoThe South's war on women and women's healthcare is another reason that's driving medical professionals to leave for richer, bigger cities... or at least areas that don't threaten you with the pit and gallows for providing life-saving care.
- devilbunny 3y agoEh. I’m at a Catholic hospital in the South. No abortions, no tubal ligations, no vasectomies. Are OB’s leaving? Some. But I already made my own peace with that. It’s a good job. I think that the stories are, shall we say, overtold. There are a lot of doctors who don’t deal with abortions at all, and it hasn’t changed our practice one whit. Women’s healthcare is a lot more than just abortions, even if they are the most obvious and prominent portion.
- datavirtue 3y agoThis. Coupled with our self-induced physician supply we are increasingly at the mercy of those who employ and control medical professionals.
- Spooky23 3y agoThey are also bad places to work. My sister is an NP who quit because the caseload was too high as she was afraid that someone would die and she’s lose her license. Her last day she was assigned 15 patients.