The entire system is beginning to concern me. You attempt to see your own doctor but alas, he is away for several weeks. You then go to a walk-in clinic, get some meds that don't seem to be doing anything at all the way they should within a few hours....you go back to same clinic but they say the doctor won't see you because he has already seen you once today and he won't get paid for seeing you the second time! You come home, wondering how you're going to get feeling better. You think that perhaps if you go to the out-patients at the hospital you may be seen within 4 or 5 hours, depending on how many drunks, stabbings and overdoses are waiting ahead of you....but you don't look like any type of emergency like the ones mentioned...so you wait, and wait, and wait and wait.....And just being in these places you wonder what you will come out of there with. I once went to a walk-in clinic and was going to get a cortisone shot but the doctor there said he wouldn't do it because it wasn't clean enough to do that type of procedure there. I would have to come into a doctor's office to get it done! NOT CLEAN ENOUGH!!!!??? And when you get to the hospital ER, and you finally get into an actual bed, you sit and wait and wait and wait again while doctors, nurses and staff are chatting up a storm in the 'central communications' area....
Don't mind me. I just need to rant, but I know that some of you will sympathize with what I have said because you also have experienced some of these very frustrating things. Seems like people who really need to see a doctor don't....and those that find themselves in an out-of-body experience, get to see a doctor very quickly. Of course, this is coming from my perspective only. I am certain there are some very logical reasons why one has to wait so long to see a doctor at the hospital ER....I just don't know what those may be. And I know doctors will have every reason under the sun why there is such a long waiting line too. But really, when a person finds themselves not wanting to go to the hospital for those kinds of reasons, to me, that is a very bad sign. I had one person suggest that anyone drunk, disorderly or stoned, should be sent to another type of institution altogether to handle those things in particular and that would free up some doctors who could actually look after some people who really are ill. I hate to say it, but it just may boil down to $$$$$!!!
So, if I end up in the ER department tonight with daughter, I'm afraid by then, I will have run out of mercy....and patience. She is one sick person and I am very tired!
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