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Healthcare, American-style (none / 1)

Death after two-hour ER wait ruled homicide

So, it's no secret that they are trying to kill us. I wonder though, one of the main complaints of national healthcare systems is "long waits". You folks have a lot of these incidents?

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -Voltaire

by p------- on Fri Sep 15th, 2006 at 02:16:57 PM EST

Re: Healthcare, American-style (none / 0)

No, it does not seem to be a topic here.

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Sep 15th, 2006 at 02:22:35 PM EST
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Re: Healthcare, American-style (none / 1)

It is in the UK, where they have all these numerical targets nowadays. One of which is that all patients entering ER should be treated within 4 hours.
Thus they force sick people to wait outside the door so as not to "start the clock".

Metatone or Helen or ThatBritGuy wrote about this here not too long ago.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Fri Sep 15th, 2006 at 02:55:20 PM EST
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Re: Healthcare, American-style (none / 0)

Long waits are an issue, but not for something like that: sitting in accident and emergency for eight hours on a Friday night is quite doable and you can get stuck on a trolley waiting for a bed, but that's precisely because the more urgent cases are being rushed past you.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Sep 15th, 2006 at 03:20:25 PM EST
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Re: Healthcare, American-style (none / 0)

Though there was a case or two where they fucked up patient transfers and killed a guy in rural hospitals that are in the process of being downgraded.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Sep 15th, 2006 at 03:21:17 PM EST
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