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Subjective pain scales are useless in the ER
Published on 2011-11-21 23:17:00
Strictly subjective pain scales are of no use when used to triage patients in the Emergency Department. Almost every person who sits down at the triage assessment desk rates there pain an 8-9-10 on a 1-10 scale. They do this because they know that if they rate their pain at greater than 8, then they cannot be screened out as non-emergent and requested to accept financial responsibility for at least SOME of their visit. Nurses are discouraged from using non-subjective pai
Slow ER Doc's
Published on 2011-09-07 06:43:00
Is there ANYTHING more frustrating to an ER nurse than a Doctor who can't make a decision? Ordering tests one at a time, so that the patients sit in the rooms for hours before you even have results, and then once everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) is back, still no answer!! Patients angry because they're tired of waiting, families up in your face constantly for answers you can't give them, and more and more patients piling up in the waiting room because you can't get anyon
A generation of tough love, the only cure for an entitled society
Published on 2011-04-24 05:55:00
I've been talking to friends lately about the abuse of medicaid in the ER, and what could be done to fix a system that not only allows people to abuse it, but encourages it. While we were talking, we realized that so many of our friends and family who aren't in the medical profession, really have no idea how much abuse of this entitlement program that there really is. You have to wonder if the lay public knows that medicaid recipients are using the ER's in this country as their per
