My grandmother had a heart attack the other day and had to be brought to the emergency room. My mother went to visit her today and told me that the hallways were full of ER patients. While I wasn’t there to see for myself, you would think this kind of thing would only happen after a natural disaster or some other kind of mass casualty event.
Why were the hallways stuffed with patients without their own rooms? It turns out that, during the past few years, at least 5 hospitals within the broader area had shut down, with no new ones were built to replace them. The profit motive has driven the healthcare administrator ghouls to give up even the pretense that they’re able to offer timely care.
Death to Amerikkka!
About a year ago I was vomiting uncontrollably throughout the night. To the point there was nothing left but I still was hunched over the toilet bowl dry heaving, barely able to breathe between spits of vile.
Went to the emergency room at 3am, waited 6 hours, and not a single person around me was called to see a doctor.
I think my anger cured me because I ended up having enough energy to leave around 9am. I still got a $500 bill in the mail a month later because I wrote my name down and a virtual nurse did my intake form.
Burn it all down.