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> From: Wester Potter <wester6935@comcast.net>
> Date: February 17, 2008 12:45:21 PM MST
> To: Dave Dahlgren <ddahlgren@snet.net>, LAND SPEED LIST
><land-speed@autox.team.net
> >
> Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Tougher Turban
>
> My daughter would agree with Dave's friend. She is the Saturday/
> Sunday
> ER receptionist in the inner city hospital in Salt Lake while
> finishing college
> with the intent of becoming a nurse. She comes home simply furious at
> the people who have no health insurance and use the ER as their
> private
> physician. One regular drug seeker who has a $30,000 bill at the
> hospital
> is in almost every weekend with a different "serious" pain. They
> can't legally
> cut her off. People have learned that they can go to this hospital,
> rather
> than two other hospitals a mile and four miles away, because of the
> legal
> hassle should they be refused service for things that would keep them
> waiting at a regular doctor's office. Their serial demands for
> immediate
> attention leave her furious at the "entitled" attitude. "This is an
> emergency
> room and my problem is an emergency" is a common complaint. The
> good part of this is the hospital is not a first line trauma
> hospital so the
> critical cases go to the other hospitals. The bad thing is they are
> rarely
> able to collect a co-pay or normal emergency room charges. It's a for
> profit corporation that owns the hospital and the bulk of the write
> offs
> are reimbursed by the government in some various ways.
>
> Then there's the drunk, brought in off the street by ambulance, under
> police custody. He was put in a room without being effectively
> searched
> and while being given oxygen, lit a cigarette. That specific room
> was out
> of service for longer than it took for him to be brought in again by
> the police,
> found passed out on the streets . . . drunk again.
> Wes
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