Emergency saturation is one of the recurring themes between toilets. The collapse of primary care, which cannot cover large numbers of patients in a reasonable amount of time, means people are finally going to hospital emergency systems.
For this reason, many doctors have debated on social networks what should be The best way to deal with this situation, In addition, many debates have arisen about who is to blame for this to happen if patients come in for non-urgent malformations or a lack of family doctors.
For his part, a pediatrician defended on Twitter that going to the emergency room required “improving the algorithm”. Avoid “imminent collapse”That’s why he has shared three tips for patients to know when they should come to this service.
“if you think you have a serious go to the emergency room, Whatever the time, the time that most closely catches you”, was the first point, recalling what the main function of this service is, to attend to maladies that require imminent treatment.
1) If you think what you have is serious, go to the emergency room. Anytime, at that moment that holds you closest.
2) If you think what you have is not serious, but you need evaluation and you have no choice but to look elsewhere, go to the emergency room at an appropriate time (I continue)— Eva Pass (@bephantol) 18 July 2022
Monday through Friday morning, ER . best time to go
However, the second point advises that if the condition is not serious but needs evaluation and “You have no choice but to look elsewhere“, the patient goes to the emergency department “at a judicious time.”
Pediatrician refers to cases in which already mentioned Patient does not get time to visit his doctor Or, for some other reason, you need to be seen and you can’t wait to get into primary care.
This recommended schedule will be during the mornings from Monday to Friday because it is “When more people are in hospitals” And also the moment where “all the experts” happen. Therefore, when the number of healthcare workers is high, there is less pressure to care for a person who comes in with a very urgent problem and when they have the best chance of being treated as soon as possible.
The morning hours from Monday to Friday is when hospitals are most crowded and when all specialists are usually
3) Submit a claim in all cases of point 2We can focus where we want, but it’s going to be a hit soon
— Eva Pass (@bephantol) 18 July 2022
“If this is going on, we won’t have an ER to go to, neither fair nor unfair”
However, the pediatrician’s advice does not stop here, as she emphasizes that, in all cases in the second point, that is, those in which the patient is forced to go to the emergency room for not receiving care by other means went, must claim,
In this way, patients will explain the shortcomings of the service to the managers. The doctor, who is facing debate over whether patients should use the service properly or not, lamented, “We can focus wherever we want, but that’s going to fly away soon.” “If he asks, we won’t have the ER to go to. Neither fair nor unfair.”
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