another drunk, another transient. LOL I am in the middle of my workweek, the nights are getting colder here which means the transients are all on the lookout for a warm place to sleep.
This means the ER fills up quickly with those who have varied vague complaints that are impossible to nail down immediately, and that gives them several hourse of interrupted sleep before we discharge them back into the night. Sometimes they even talk us out of food....
Ahhh the home of the brave and the land of the FREE.
Bitter? naw.. cynical? maybe a bit. Irritated, absolutely!! Thanks for letting me vent. :-)
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Another day another dollar...
Posted by Tonjia at 4:45 PM
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tonjia...you serve many well. Your career choice is more than that, it is who you are...
We should all live by your example to be more caring.
As for venting,it's allowed!
That's why you have us :)
~AirmanMom returning to her blog...
No, seriously. That really ticks me off, and here is why.
A month or so before Bill died, I had to take him to the ER to be admitted to the hospital. He was in desperate need of an NG tube immediately, and then in desperate need of being admitted ASAP. I was following his oncologist's orders.
As he was lying there back in one of the ER "rooms", in discomfort and quite a bit of pain, we--along with many, many others--had to wait to be seen by the ER doc. He was busy stitching up a very drunk, very cantankerous "transient" that had fallen on his face into the gutter. The downtown medical center that he wandered into for help PUT HIM IN A CAB and sent out to the suburban hospital. When he left the hospital, it didn't seem as if he was much less drunk as when he came in--I'm willing to bet he pretty much had pure alcohol flowing through his veins--so chances were pretty good he was probably gonna fall on his face again.
Now it's all fine and good to be all caring and sing kumbaya and fix them all up for free and all. Cause the people with cancer and heart attacks and whatnot can just wait.
So, yeah. I went straight to bitter on that one! Whew! Thanks for letting ME vent :)...
tonjia, I too appreciate the job you do. I wish there was a better way, a better system. but you and I both know there isn't. We do not want socialized medicine, but there needs to be some way to help those that can not help themselves. I feel the frustration in kim-d's comment and my brother a firefighter/paramedic says some people sit in the ER for 8 hours waiting to be seen. And for non lethal issues. Flu, minor injuries etc. There is something wrong when that happens in middle America, even though we are a big city (Tulsa, OK) there is no excuse for 8 hours of waiting. What is the answer? I don't know. Do you? Take care of yourself to keep doing us all a good job.
Hmmmm, I have similar feelings towards the army of homeless that camps on the street to my work who acost my car as I come and go.
Nurses are one of my hero figures. What would we do without you? I hate to think
You with transients and drunks. Me with murderers and much more.
We need to rethink our environment LOL. Thank God for coming home :)
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