The emergency department waiting for, as it is always, with patients sitting for hours, was closely packed on solid metal chairs. Only those with very terrible conditions needed immediate care – such as a heart attack – was immediately seen.
One man was enough. She bombed the glass window in front of the receptionist before wandering. When he left, he assaulted a nurse taking a smoking break. “Seriously at work?” He called, wandering.
No, the event was not real, but it was a life -like art On “House”, “ The MAX series, which will flow its season on Thursday. The show is held in the emergency room at Bitzburg’s imaginary hospital. But the primary topic – horrific overcrowding – is global in this country. It is not easy to fix.
Two disorganized and immersed editors, ” The American College of Emergency Medicine mentioned In 2023, referring to the emergency departments.
Dr. Benjamin S. said. Abella, Head of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York: “The system is at the point of collapse.”
“The Pitt” follows the emergency room doctors, nurses, medical students, life and employees around the clock one day when they deal with all kinds of medical problems, starting with a child who drowned to help her little sister get out of a swimming pool to a patient with a spider in her ear. There were heart attacks and standard strokes, excessive doses, a patient with severe burns, influenced by heavy metal poisoning in the skin cream.
Because this is the TV, many thorny problems are resolved precisely in the fifteen shows. The woman who seems to have abandoned her elderly mother, apologizes because she slept. Parents whose son died from an overdose of cross -fentanel comes around donating his members. A pregnant teenager and her mother, unlike medical abortion, reached a decision after the wise doctor’s lawyer.
But over and over, the image is a system that works further than its ability. There is a peeling room and “border” – patients who were stopping in emergency rooms or corridors for several days or more because there is no family in the hospital. (The American College of Emergency Doctors Calls ascending National Public Health Crisis.)
There is a long wait for simple tests. There is a porch medicine – patients who see a doctor in the hallway, not in a private area, because there is no other place to put them.
There is violence, verbal and physical, from patients who suffer from mental problems and those, such as the man who punched the nurse, who are tired.
Dr. Abella said: “The” house “shows the coercion of the regime. “All over the country we see this day after a day.”
But why cannot this problem be fixed?
Dr. Ezekiel C. Emmanuel, co -director of ” Institute of Health Transformation At the University of Pennsylvania University. He said the problem is “multi -side and there is no magic stick.”
Part of it is money.
The presence of patients who have confused the emergency rooms ensures that no unused bed is used, and enhances hospital revenues.
Then there is a problem with emptying patients. The spaces are rare in the role of the elderly and the rehabilitation centers, so patients ready to leave the hospital are often stuck waiting to open an area elsewhere.
Dr. Jeremy S. said. Faust, who attends the doctor in the emergency medicine department in Brigham and the Emergency Medicine Hospital, time tables are another difficulty. He said that many rehabilitation centers recognize patients only during working hours. If ER patient is ready to go out to one during the weekend, this patient must wait.
In “The Pitt”, as in real life, patients often appear in emergency rooms with problems – such as a child who suffers from ear pain – the private doctor should be able to deal with him. Why don’t they go to their doctor instead of waiting for the waiting hours?
Dr. Emmanuel said that one of the reasons is that “primary care will go to hell in a manual basket.”
In many cities, it is difficult to find an initial care doctor. Even if you have one, get a date that may take days or weeks.
Many do not want to wait.
Dr. Abella said: “The modern mentality, for the better or for the worst, is: If I cannot get it now, I will search for other solutions.”
This often means the emergency room.
Even building large emergency rooms did not help in overcrowding.
Dr. Faust said that his hospital opened a new emergency room a few years ago with a significant increase in the number of family. A colleague, giving him a tour, told him that there is now a lot of space, perhaps there will be no patients in the hallway.
Dr. Faust said: “I looked at him and said,” Bwhahahaha “.” If you built it, they will come. “
He was right.
