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Is this really how it is in the ER?

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Miller
 
Reply Mon 28 May, 2007 02:41 pm
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NickFun
 
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Reply Mon 28 May, 2007 02:50 pm
I do feel for the guy with the splitting headache. Head trauma should be treated right away. I wonder if he made it?
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gustavratzenhofer
 
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Reply Mon 28 May, 2007 02:52 pm
That was me, Nick. I'm ok. Thanks for asking.
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NickFun
 
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Reply Mon 28 May, 2007 03:06 pm
Thank god Gus. Be more careful whe putting the tractor i reverse.
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Miller
 
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Reply Mon 28 May, 2007 06:09 pm
gustavratzenhofer wrote:
I'm ok. Thanks for asking.


You look like you're vitamin-deficient.
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nimh
 
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Reply Mon 28 May, 2007 06:19 pm
But just keep telling yourself: the US health care system is the best in the world!
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Miller
 
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Reply Mon 28 May, 2007 06:29 pm
How about a visit to an ER in Liberia?
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gustavratzenhofer
 
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Reply Mon 28 May, 2007 06:41 pm
My sister, battling Dengue Fever in Tonga, knew she was in trouble when she saw a cat walk by her hospital bed
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nimh
 
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Reply Mon 28 May, 2007 07:09 pm
Miller wrote:
How about a visit to an ER in Liberia?

Yeah, cause "best of the world" = "better than Liberia"?

How about in Holland? Never heard of such scenes. But then again health insurance is mandatory (and subsidized for the poor) in our country. So we dont have millions of uninsured who cant afford to go to a regular GP, and therefore just wait with complaints till theyre bad enough to go to the ER with them.

I'm only mentioning this in the first place because of the hundred-times repeated claim here on A2K that "America's health care system is the best in the world".. stupid bit of chauvinism that keeps many American conservatives from learning from other countries' examples.
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dadpad
 
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Reply Mon 28 May, 2007 08:18 pm
Many years ago my father was diagnosed as being gravely ill. Arrangements were made for him to be flown from the small country town where he lived by air ambulance to the capital city where I lived for treatment.
It was about 10.00 pm when we got the call so my wife and I headed straight in to the ER.

The plane did not arrive for some time and overall diagnosis and stabilising treatment took much of the night.

Sitting in the ER for most of the night was perhaps one of the most entertaining 6 hours I have ever spent, Especially around 2.00 am when the night clubs began to close.

The triage sister was one of the grumpiest people I have ever met but the skill and efficiancy she showed in ordering up cases as they arrived was amazing.

CJ has that same quality about her
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nimh
 
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Reply Mon 28 May, 2007 08:21 pm
You calling CJ one of the grumpiest people you've ever met? Razz
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dadpad
 
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Reply Mon 28 May, 2007 08:32 pm
nimh wrote:
You calling CJ one of the grumpiest people you've ever met? Razz


I can run pretty fast. Laughing




Actually meant efficiant no nonsense type.
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CalamityJane
 
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Reply Mon 28 May, 2007 08:41 pm
No, no, you can leave it at most grumpiest, dadpad. Laughing
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Miller
 
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Reply Tue 29 May, 2007 03:39 am
nimh wrote:


How about in Holland?


I'd rather go to an ER in a Boston hospital, affliated with Harvard Medical School. But you can go to an ER in Holland if you wish.
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Miller
 
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Reply Tue 29 May, 2007 03:40 am
nimh wrote:
You calling CJ one of the grumpiest people you've ever met? Razz


If there's name calling, the incidents should be reported to the Moderator.
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Miller
 
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Reply Tue 29 May, 2007 03:42 am
NickFun wrote:
I do feel for the guy with the splitting headache. Head trauma should be treated right away. I wonder if he made it?


If he didn't we'll soon be seeing a followup in one of law journals.
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dadpad
 
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Reply Tue 29 May, 2007 05:09 am
Miller wrote:
nimh wrote:
You calling CJ one of the grumpiest people you've ever met? Razz


If there's name calling, the incidents should be reported to the Moderator.


I agree.

dadpad, you are a moron. sod off and do something constructive for a change.
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Noddy24
 
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Reply Tue 29 May, 2007 08:36 am
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My sister, battling Dengue Fever in Tonga, knew she was in trouble when she saw a cat walk by her hospital bed




....and the cat was carrying a large, not-quite-dead rodent whose fleas were deserting by the hundreds.
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Miller
 
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Reply Tue 29 May, 2007 11:08 am
Noddy24 wrote:
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My sister, battling Dengue Fever in Tonga, knew she was in trouble when she saw a cat walk by her hospital bed




....and the cat was carrying a large, not-quite-dead rodent whose fleas were deserting by the hundreds.


I hope your sister didn't try the hospital soup...
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