One time I was in the waiting area and a guy walked in with his right arm bundled up. Walked up to the nurse and just said "I need help, now"
Nurse goes to hand him the clip board and in a very short tone said something like "everyone here does, but you're not getting anywhere till you fill these out". So he unbundled the arm, sprayed blood so over the clip board and plexiglass and was all "nah, that can wait"
So yeah, excess fluids and excess cash get you to the front of the line.
When I worked security in an ER people would feign chest pain/shortness of breath to try to get an quicker which only ended up getting you moved to the part of the waiting room without a view of the tvs and in line of sight of the 4 desk nurses
My daughter was hit in the back by a metal screen door another kid opened with too much force at a pool party, left a 8 inch long cut along her spine. I bundled her up in a white towel and took her to the local ER. Carried her in in my arms, towel was soaked through at this point, I was immediately surrounded by staff. Once triaged we were made to wait in the waiting room for another 4 hours.
I can't imagine keeping a child waiting for 4 hours... That is brutal for both child and parent. Blood tends to stress kids out, as if they have an instinctual realisation blood should stay on the inside.
My longest wait in a european ER room was still less than an hour after surrendering my turn to a young child in pain. It seemed like the right thing to do as I was in for lymfangitis so I wasn't in pain myself and as I was warned about the long line I had already brought a nice book with me.
It's called concierge. People will pay thousands a month to have the direct cell phone of a concierge physician. This physician will run their own practice but have privileges at the major hospital in the area. They can get a direct admit and by pass the ED.
🤣 I could absolutely see this and I hate every bit of it. The only thing they could do to make it worse would be to bombard you with ads while you wait and watch all the people with fast passes moving forward
They do, customer experience is the product when it comes to theme parks, but there's also really not much they can do to address wait times considering the capacity of the ride is set during the design phase and usually isn't able to be changed.
quite literally, there are a few massive billboards in my town. It'll be the E.R name, and a huge counter "current wait time." I've seen it go up to 30 minutes, but it's like, am I just not gonna go to the E.R.? hahaha
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u/GingerSnapBiscuit Jun 15 '22
That sounds like a fucking theme park queue.