Old Project Avalon Forum (ARCHIVE) - View Single Post - Emergency Room Protocols and Turning people away

gscraig · 11-26-2009, 10:40 AM

Hello Boudicca,

I agree and very well aware of personal protocols in terms of illness, as well would be my relative.

However, I did not list all of her symptoms aside from being sick and tired.
There was not a need to go into the specifics in order to drive the point of the post. I will say she did get much worse as she feared, but as late she is now doing much better. Thanks for the well wishes.
The chance of it getting worse was her concern to begin with, after already treating the symptoms herself.

The driver of the post was that if the ER is empty as it was in both scenarios, she created no burden in terms of medical priority, being that there was none. Therefore, rather wrong or right for why she went (and the cost to her financially), if you are going to accept a co-pay (for her it is a $100.00 which will be billed), then you should as well see the patient. If you know up front you are turning patients away whom have no fever with such symptoms, then that can be established during registration when you are asked what's wrong, and then asked for a co-pay. SHe should have taken my MMS like I suggested to her. :-)

I will correct a mistype where I indicated that the last time these symptoms surfaced, she ended up with either bronchitis (severe) and/or pneumonia...not the flu as indicated in my post.

I actually came back to this link to share the following opinion with everyone;
I think this action that was requested by the Health Board is actually beneficial in terms of preventing the inflation of H1n1 cases. Due to a project I was involved with that included communication to the Health Boards, I have a strong feeling this move (despite it's poor execution) is to our benefit.

I could be wrong, but hey.

11-26-2009, 10:40 AM	#6
gscraig Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 335	Re: Emergency Room Protocols and Turning people away Hello Boudicca, I agree and very well aware of personal protocols in terms of illness, as well would be my relative. However, I did not list all of her symptoms aside from being sick and tired. There was not a need to go into the specifics in order to drive the point of the post. I will say she did get much worse as she feared, but as late she is now doing much better. Thanks for the well wishes. The chance of it getting worse was her concern to begin with, after already treating the symptoms herself. The driver of the post was that if the ER is empty as it was in both scenarios, she created no burden in terms of medical priority, being that there was none. Therefore, rather wrong or right for why she went (and the cost to her financially), if you are going to accept a co-pay (for her it is a $100.00 which will be billed), then you should as well see the patient. If you know up front you are turning patients away whom have no fever with such symptoms, then that can be established during registration when you are asked what's wrong, and then asked for a co-pay. SHe should have taken my MMS like I suggested to her. :-) I will correct a mistype where I indicated that the last time these symptoms surfaced, she ended up with either bronchitis (severe) and/or pneumonia...not the flu as indicated in my post. I actually came back to this link to share the following opinion with everyone; I think this action that was requested by the Health Board is actually beneficial in terms of preventing the inflation of H1n1 cases. Due to a project I was involved with that included communication to the Health Boards, I have a strong feeling this move (despite it's poor execution) is to our benefit. I could be wrong, but hey.