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Originally Posted by Max_Tab
Obviously you've never been to the Womack ER. I feel no pity for them or anyone associated with them.
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It is not the Womack ER. The facility is fine.
It is the people "working" there. To most of them, you are just a number, another annoyance, and an interruption to their personal schedule.
Five hours plus to treat a heart attack victim (by life-flighting him to a real hospital), after being delivered by an EMS and IDed by EKG as a heart attack patient.
Another five hours to be seen when I went in with a laceration to my leg that required more than a dozen stitches to close. They took my vitals after an hour of waiting and gave me spare 4x4s to mop up the blood off my leg and the ER floor while I waited. By the time they found a medic to stitch it up, the edges had retracted and it took forever to heal. If they had left a scar like that on one of my kids, I would have kicked someone's ass. The security guard advised me after the first hour to go somewhere else. Next time, I will.
The treatment provided there would drive any civilian hospital into bankruptcy with the lawsuits.
Again, anyone considering a government run health care system should visit a VA or military hospital and seriously consider the implications.
TR