The Emergency Room SUCKS!

“I unlike Artex, am sorry that you are not feeling well.

i hope your up and about very soon.
But in the mean time let your daddy wear your backpack until you wear it!!”

“I had to go in after I had a nagging sore eye since last summer at Montanapalooza!”

“Ooh, that wasn't as bad as I thought it would be...

Somewhere lyra is probably barfing though...”

“AERO, WHAT THE HELL!!

i'm feeling a few retches coming on...”

“oh man that was so gross......
please say it is a joke.
if not I want ALL details”

“Aero, that was nasty! Cool, but nasty!!! :-)”

“When I was in highschool a friend and I played chicken on bicycles. Neither one of us moved. We ended up a mass of mangled bikes and road rash.

I probably shouldn't have told that story should I.”

“And here all this time I was worried about face-sucking aliens!”

“You are all Maggots!”

“oh no, ok pathman were are the pics of maggots?”

“Ugh. That is sooo friggin' NASTY Aero!”

“It was first thought to be a piece of dust. It got worse and more irritated. Eye drops didn't work. The doctor thought it was a tumor or growth, took a look and discovered the worm had hatched from an egg. Feels much better now!”

“are you kidding me, Aero?? holy crap nuggets.”

“are you sure you didnt mean to say "holy crap maggots?"”

“You should see the pics of the time they thought I had appedicitis!”

“it's my new phrase, Maple!

you ARE kidding, Aero. it's SO been done!
;-)”

“uh oh.”

“Oh foul aero...

Link to the snopes page for these photos

Oh, and they are real...”

“lol lyra. its kinda like mine "you dumbass moron"”

“Aero, i had no idea you were a 5-year-old Honduran boy! i'll be damned.
:-)”

“He's amazing, isn't he? I hear he has a rear end like a woman's, too...”

“hee hee!”

“Violin's "my left foot" legacy.

Nasty nasty nasty”

“It's only fitting for this thread, Phaedrus!”

“Aero, you obviously had Violin's left foot in your eye! Bletch!”

“Maple, when I run into maggots, I don't stop to take pictures.”

“no matter how much you like 'em.......do not pick the strawberries :>)”

“aero, that is sooooo cool!!! cuterebra?
;p

I volunteer in the ER regularly and it is a tough job. I give EMS personnel a lot of credit...they don't get nearly the credit they deserve.”

“Thanks Amy G, you're dern right on that one. Did Y'all know that most paramedics make less than $13 an hour unless they work in a metro area? That's alot of responsibility for very little pay - that's why so many of them go into nursing, it pays better and you don't have to pick up all the vermin and stuff on the street.

As for triage, it's the process of sorting patients by "perceived" criticality of their injuries.

Saturday I had a burn victim that would have made you all wait in the ER had he come in at the same time. He was 39 y/o and burned over 60% of his body. He was a black man, but you couldn't tell it because his burns went thru the subcutaneous layer of his skin. He was airlifted out and later died of his burns.

So, triage is just that, the worse are first..sorry Y'all!!

Tex”

“If you don't want to wait in the ER, say you are having trouble breathing or that your chest hurts...those two phrases will put you at the top of the list..

In case you ever wanted to try and beat the system...but you didn't hear it here, folks!

Tex”

“and does not always mean the worst are first. The worst who can be saved, given the resources at hand, are first. The hopeless are made comfortable.”

“Want the waits to be reduced in the ER? Too many people use it as their primary care doc. Medicaid recipients are high utilizers of the ER. Some states have tried to enact policies retricting access to ER services unless it is deemed life-threatening. The argument against this by CMS(federal regulatory body for Medicaid) is what the prudent "layperson" would consider life-threatening. The states that tried to enact restricted access have been ordered to rescind the new rule and now it's back to status quo. Health care companies and the states are getting killed by rising ER costs associated with abuse and it continues to worsen.

In the big scope of things the ER issue is small potatoes, but when many managed care organizations operate on about 5 percent margins every cost reduction matters, especially due to necessary capital expenditures to stay on the cutting edge and competitive in the health care market.”