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One time I went to A&E in the UK, I saw a young unconscious woman outside, laying next to a wheelchair. I told the receptionist and was told she had to come in
by caseyy 2y ago
One time I went to A&E in the UK, I saw a young unconscious woman outside, laying next to a wheelchair. I told the receptionist and was told she had to come in for treatment. Another patient tried to get her into the wheelchair but ultimately I got an ambulance involved to bring her in.
The nurse then recognized the woman, for it was the very nurse who had rolled her out for fresh air some time ago.
It was a cold night, as well. I think there was some snow, or it was about to snow.
There is definitely an over-reliance on schematics in emergency medicine. The moment a slightly more complicated patient is involved or one falls outside the schematic otherwise, their risk of serious health injury or death goes up a lot.
This was always interesting to me. I went to medschool, and I remember my peers as people who genuinely wanted to help others. Few would have refused to help someone collapsed outside in the cold. But our medical system has changed a lot, many more people do it for the pay slip. Most probably still care about the patients but I suppose some portion genuinely don’t. If it’s not on the schematic, they won’t care for it.
- hnlmorg 2y agoBeing overworked will do that to you. It’s like asking a software engineer to write a hundred new features in a given sprint while the rest of the application is in flames. Eventually you stop aspiring to build good software and just hope enough of your code works that it’s good enough for some people. Unfortunately medical services are literal life and death services. So we have it much easier as software engineers.
- agos 2y agothat is, until people who work in literal life and death services have to use software written by overworked engineers...
- theblobawakens 2y agoI don't know why I read the last part "medieval services are literal life and death services".
- itronitron 2y agoI've always had the experience that all employees at hospitals act like contractors. Usually great at what they do but no sense or willingness to look beyond their direct job responsibility.
- chaostheory 2y agoThere’s a common reason for that: overworked, over stressed, and underpaid. Eventually the exhaustion will turn you into a numb zombie clocking in and out. There’s no easy solution since healthcare is already expensive.
- prmoustache 2y agoI have worked in an hospital and that is clearly not true.