You don't understand how an ER works. ER staff sometimes are taking on way too many responsibilities and there's acute cases waiting. Pending area, it could be gunshots, strokes, heart attacks. Nothing is "a simple PCR test". Every time someone sees the patient, they have to write a report.
Intake reports take 2 hours to write.
Seeing a patient and writing a note with medical decision making takes, on a minimum, 30 minutes.
Keep in mind, there are people waiting who are literally having HEART ATTACKS or STROKES or dying because their blood pressure is 60/40 and they need fluids.
BTW, ER doctors/NPs/PAs get their scores downvoted to hell if their patients die. The whole point of EMERGENCY is that it takes care of EMERGENCIES. Getting a PCR is nowhere NEAR an emergency. Nowhere near. Not even close. Not even by a long shot.
So tbh, your family friend should've planned better. PCR is not an emergency. Tell her to stop abusing the EMERGENCY system. She should've gone to her PRIMARY CARE DOCTOR to get PCR a week ago.
You don't understand how an ER works. ER staff sometimes are taking on way too many responsibilities and there's acute cases waiting. Pending area, it could be gunshots, strokes, heart attacks. Nothing is "a simple PCR test". Every time someone sees the patient, they have to write a report.
Intake reports take 2 hours to write. Seeing a patient and writing a note with medical decision making takes, on a minimum, 30 minutes.
Keep in mind, there are people waiting who are literally having HEART ATTACKS or STROKES or dying because their blood pressure is 60/40 and they need fluids.
BTW, ER doctors/NPs/PAs get their scores downvoted to hell if their patients die. The whole point of EMERGENCY is that it takes care of EMERGENCIES. Getting a PCR is nowhere NEAR an emergency. Nowhere near. Not even close. Not even by a long shot.
So tbh, your family friend should've planned better. PCR is not an emergency. Tell her to stop abusing the EMERGENCY system. She should've gone to her PRIMARY CARE DOCTOR to get PCR a week ago.
GOD. DAMN.
Thank you for reinforcing my opinion on doctors that I will never go near one again
By all means! If you can't understand that Emergency Rooms are meant for EMERGENCIES, I have nothing else to say.
I hope you get past that, emergency rooms are meant to strip you of your money as if it is an emergency. Allopathy is a very dark art, please stop.