09-17-2008, 06:06 AM
I do think comparing the ER to the regular hospital is apples and oranges. The ER is its own thing. The ER also suffers because too many people can't get in to see a primary care doctor and have to go to emergency as an alternative.
I went to the ER in Hilo and while giving my health history (as a routine intake), I mentioned a medical condition I've had for a long time only to have the intake nurse (male) say that he had never heard of it, and what's more, he didn't believe there was such a condition.
Ignorance compounded by judgmental. [
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I was shocked. Without getting into my personal health history, this condition affects over 2% of the population in the US, according to the CDC. That's 2 in 100, and an ER nurse at Hilo has never heard of it, and since he never heard of it, declares that the person giving a health history is making it up. [:0]
I went to the ER in Hilo and while giving my health history (as a routine intake), I mentioned a medical condition I've had for a long time only to have the intake nurse (male) say that he had never heard of it, and what's more, he didn't believe there was such a condition.
Ignorance compounded by judgmental. [
]I was shocked. Without getting into my personal health history, this condition affects over 2% of the population in the US, according to the CDC. That's 2 in 100, and an ER nurse at Hilo has never heard of it, and since he never heard of it, declares that the person giving a health history is making it up. [:0]