Re:The Company Behind Many Surprise Emergency Room Bills
by grecy on Monday July 24, 2017 @08:10PM
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>you actually do have to wait several months for treatment if your issue is not "urgent", the definition of urgent being unknown.
Surely even in the actual best in the world, waiting for something that is no urgent simply makes sense and is the only way it can function. Do you expect a hospital to have 5x as many beds and staff as is often required so you can have instant surgery on your non-urgent problem? (i.e. knee replacement)
Of course you wait a little bit while they schedule it in, otherwise it would cost an insane amount of money to have all those resources waiting around for your non-urgent problem.
My experience with "urgent" problems has always been instant in Canada - my broken nose, my brother's separated shoulder and broken legs.
Even when I went in a week after being hit by a car I waited all of 5 minutes before a doctor saw me.
Surely even in the actual best in the world, waiting for something that is no urgent simply makes sense and is the only way it can function. Do you expect a hospital to have 5x as many beds and staff as is often required so you can have instant surgery on your non-urgent problem? (i.e. knee replacement)
Of course you wait a little bit while they schedule it in, otherwise it would cost an insane amount of money to have all those resources waiting around for your non-urgent problem.
My experience with "urgent" problems has always been instant in Canada - my broken nose, my brother's separated shoulder and broken legs. Even when I went in a week after being hit by a car I waited all of 5 minutes before a doctor saw me.