Spoke with a family member about a grandpa they have been caring for. They were taken to the hospital in AZ for a broken bone during a fall.
Sounds like they were put into a bed in the hallway & rushed them out with the bone still broken. To be fair, if doctors are working 18hr shifts because some flu is keeping those hospitals filled beyond capacity, I can see them missing something on an xray.
They were taken to a different hospital where their bed was also put into a hallway. The EMT asked around to see if there were any hospitals that this man could be taken to. They were all filled beyond capacity with the flu.
Now I don't know how true it is that every hospital is filled in AZ is. Everything I state here is clearly hearsay, though I am curious if any AZ pedes happen to know if there is any truth to this?
Also it could be that the some narrative is being pushed. Just trying to figure out if there is potential for a narrative push for some scare event down there?
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We had to take my elderly mom to the ER last Friday here on the east side of Tucson. The ER wasnt that full, but some people had been waiting to be seen for 6 hours. My mom is 90, so we didnt have to wait that long. But once we got into a room in the ER they decided to admit her. She laid in the ER room for 2 days before they moved her into ICU as they told us that there were no beds available. We wanted to transfer her to TMC, but we were told that there were 14 people waiting to be transferred to TMC as they didnt have any beds available. Another nurse then told us that there was a shortage of staff in both AZ and CA and why beds werent available. Like they had beds available, but were short staffed. My wife and I noticed how empty the parking lot was every time we went over the weekend. Even during the week the parking lot wasnt that full, and while walking through the hospital to get to my mothers room there were empty beds.
Thanks for this update. I didn't get the two hospital names that had patients in the halls.
Less nurses wanting to work in hospitals, or having become too ill to work, would be an issue. That said, in the late 90s-Early 2000s it was made clear in schools that there would be a shortage of nursing due to the large increase of boomers needing medical care in their older years. We have reached that point now. Too bad so many nurses left the job because they were to to take a jab or not come back.