I knew it! Monday, whether day or night, is usually a ‘high flow’ day… It was a mad scramble to keep on top of the queue, and it’s only know that I’ve had time to er hem… checked my email, read a few pages of really dry statistics stuff and decided to blog a bit…
For once I really scolded my patients ie. the NS guys x3 who were obviously well (therefore no MC given) and this middle aged lady who woke up with a sore throat (she had URTI symptoms the night before). I couldn’t understand why she had to come to ED in the middle of the night for such a complaint and I really asked her why… She seemed a bit dumbstruck and a bit frantic… I think she started to scramble out of the cubicle. Haha… I don’t know manz… I mean I don’t mind if patients came for a non-emergent complaint which made them ill enough to want some sort of relief, but sore throat?



Raise ED charges for non-emergency cases to stem abuse. If we charge $150 consultation for non-emergency cases, I dare say that woman will not come to ED
Comment by Anonymous — September 28, 2008 @ 10:31 am
that’s an absolutely lovely idea! however, the problem lies in patients being unable to decide wat’s emergent and wat’s suitable for OPS / GP consult the next day… then of course the same one case of like GE would be interpreted at different levels of severity by different groups of pts… sigh…
Comment by dopey — October 7, 2008 @ 4:51 pm