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Aug 20, 2022Liked by Edwin Leap

Please send to The Journal to publish....Everyone needs to hear this!

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Aug 21, 2022Liked by Edwin Leap

Excellent article. I’m thinking of putting it with my list of meds, conditions, and surgeries. This will help the husband who is very impatient and doesn’t like to be in hospitals too. Thank you

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Well done! It’s a shit show out there.

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Wear a mask because if you’re sitting in the waiting room for hours, you’ll inevitably have someone sit next to you with COVID.

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Aug 4, 2023·edited Aug 4, 2023

This is a result of too much demand and not enough supply, because there is a limit to what the taxpayer can provide for the too large contingent of non-paying patients. The "everyone must be treated" model is unsustainable.

The ER has become the doctor of choice for everyone who has no health insurance or a relationship with a primary care physician. Hence, the real emergencies don't have enough staff to deal with them in a timely manner. The staff suffer burn-out for obvious reasons.

Those who are addicted chose their suffering and should be taken to a different treatment center so that others, genuinely ill can receive care in a calm atmosphere, for their sake and for those treating them.

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The ER should not be used as a place of convenience. It is literally for emergencies like heart attacks, strokes, broken bones, asthma attacks, serious car accidents, sometime a fever of 104, and oh yes, bleeding to death.

First try to go to your doctor's clinic, if you can get passed the receptionist or nurses, or think of urgent care. And please try not to go to the ER for Percocet at 2 AM with a toothache you've had for two weeks. You will not be popular.

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... an UP TO DATE list of your medications.

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