How to get help in a hurry -- thanks CNN

[DocZ]

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http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/25/emergency.room.care/index.html

Hopefully I don't start to see an increase in VIP's. I'm sure that I won't
see a decrease in "inappropriate or threatening language."

By the way its nice to know that at Penn; "obnoxious wannabe VIP liars get the slowest service"

 

[Hard24Get]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/25/emergency.room.care/index.html

Hopefully I don't start to see an increase in VIP's. I'm sure that I won't
see a decrease in "inappropriate or threatening language."

By the way its nice to know that at Penn; "obnoxious wannabe VIP liars get the slowest service"

Jesse Pines is cool. At least the article was about if you TRULY think things aren't moving the way the ought to be. There are certainly people who have deteriorated in the waiting room because the gravity of their situation was not realized by the triage staff.

Anyway, every one knows the best way to get seen quickly is to either faint, fake a seizure, or claim to have recently gotten a stent put in and c/o exertional pressure-like chest pain with nausea and diaphoresis. 😀

 

[Arcan57]

Crumping in the waiting room is for suckers, if you really want VIP service go out to the main lobby of the hospital and collapse complaing of chest pain. You'll be back in a cushy monitored room in minutes.

 

[southerndoc]

Crumping in the waiting room is for suckers, if you really want VIP service go out to the main lobby of the hospital and collapse complaing of chest pain. You'll be back in a cushy monitored room in minutes.

And then when you tell me that you're really just there for flu-like symptoms, you'll get a medical screening exam and be deferred to the financial services rep to pay your facility fee/copayment and then get queued back in line with everyone else.

We had a patient in the waiting room threaten to call our hospital CEO, which he did. He was there for a sprained ankle. The CEO called the nursing supervisor, who said "great, I'll get him back immediately if you'll come down here and explain to the 90 year old chest pain that's been waiting 30 minutes for a room why someone with a sprained ankle is being seen before her." I thought that took major courage to do that.