'The passionless, almost desperate Third World-like scene at the first hospital revealed a system already overwhelmed. What was behind the delays in serving patients?'
A young woman lay on a cold metal bench outdoors, partly covered with a thin blanket. Asked if she needed help, she said quietly, “I’m having a miscarriage.”
People are also reading… For a nurse, a doctor, someone to help them at the emergency room of a local hospital Center in Tucson.The scene unfolded on a Tuesday morning. Time slowed toward a standstill, while anxiety sped ahead. Not a heart attack, but pain severe enough that this normally tough-as-nails elderly man had asked his daughters to take him to the hospital. He has heart trouble, his cardiac rhythm governed by a pacemaker.
In the face of that and his heart history, a cautious doctor ordered him admitted for more tests and overnight observation. A collective sigh of relief ensued; some help and caring, at last. Perhaps some ER workers were out sick that day. Or too many people needed emergency care. It was a bad day for the obviously taxed health care workers and certainly for patients.
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