[Land-speed] Fwd: [Non Land-speed] Tougher Turban

Wester Potter wester6935 at comcast.net
Mon Feb 18 07:20:34 MST 2008


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Wester Potter <wester6935 at comcast.net>
> Date: February 17, 2008 12:45:21 PM MST
> To: Dave Dahlgren <ddahlgren at snet.net>, LAND SPEED LIST <land-speed at 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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