Pretty soon we'll be putting two people in one bed.
Consider a scenario where there are more sick people than well workers ... how does that bode for an entire society? Just pondering the unthinkable.
Best to all, C.C.
Not sure what's happening ... but seems like we're building new hospitals right, left and center, yet ER wait times are getting longer and longer and hospital beds are stuffed to overflowing.
Pretty soon we'll be putting two people in one bed.
Consider a scenario where there are more sick people than well workers ... how does that bode for an entire society? Just pondering the unthinkable.
Best to all, C.C.
Pretty soon we'll be putting two people in one bed.
Consider a scenario where there are more sick people than well workers ... how does that bode for an entire society? Just pondering the unthinkable.
Best to all, C.C.
QUOTE (calmcookie @ Feb 15 2008, 01:39 PM) 
Not sure what's happening ... but seems like we're building new hospitals right, left and center, yet ER wait times are getting longer and longer and hospital beds are stuffed to overflowing.
Pretty soon we'll be putting two people in one bed.
Consider a scenario where there are more sick people than well workers ... how does that bode for an entire society? Just pondering the unthinkable.
Best to all, C.C.
Pretty soon we'll be putting two people in one bed.
Consider a scenario where there are more sick people than well workers ... how does that bode for an entire society? Just pondering the unthinkable.
Best to all, C.C.
its quite simple...its an aging population
I don't see alot of old people at the emergency room. I do know that the emergency room has become THE treatment center of choice for people with no health insurance, or people on some type of aid.
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... the elderly make up a percentage ... but there are a lot of young people too (usually obese).
We're working on answers in Silicon Valley. One of the answers is to get patients that are only in hospital for monitoring, out of there. Remote diagnostics and patient monitoring systems are under development. That's about all I can tell you though under NDA.
How does this wait time compare to the Canadian health system, CC? A retired operating nurse friend indicated to me that US citizens are crossing over border to get free medical care at hospitals- supposedly no one can be denied, citizen of Canada or no!
FWIW, almost every physician I know or visit complains bitterly about the terrible working conditions and overwork especially! Yet medical schools are having to DENY applicants for these terrible conditions at something like a 10 to 1 ratio.
Reminds me of Woody Allen's comment about food at a wedding "tasting terrible", AND "being in such small quantities" :-)
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FWIW, almost every physician I know or visit complains bitterly about the terrible working conditions and overwork especially! Yet medical schools are having to DENY applicants for these terrible conditions at something like a 10 to 1 ratio.
Reminds me of Woody Allen's comment about food at a wedding "tasting terrible", AND "being in such small quantities" :-)
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