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My day at the hospital emergency unit
Mrs Horse is an outpatient. She had to go in for treatment for some "plumbing" problems, which took all day from about 7am. They treated her very well.
12 hours of patients coming and going at one of Sydney's biggest ECU was quite a thing for me to see because I rarely go to hospital and usually stay for as short as possible.
At one stage we had a lady who had been hit by a car in the next bed, an old lady with heart problems on the other side, and then a teenager with a broken knee and on and on it went. Car accidents, industrial accidents, crazy people walking around shouting sometimes but it was okay. I got a lot of respect for the doctors and nurses - grace under pressure. Not all the patients are grateful or easy.
But we got out before the drunks and drug addicts started showing up (nightfall) so all in all it was good day. In fact the best part of the day was seeing people come in sick and go out much better, like the lady who came in with blood pressure at 190 after they got her BP down to 130. Remarkable how some people changed from incoherent barely functioning wrecks to pretty much normal people after a few hours of care, like watching little miracles from the medicos. There is a lot of pressure on beds.
Mrs Horse is much better. She had the option to be admitted to hospital but she chose to come home because my TLC is better
A good thing to do if you have to go to hospital is take someone with you. That takes the pressure off the nurses, there is a lot of little things you can do to help the patient
Also go early in the morning - no waiting
12 hours of patients coming and going at one of Sydney's biggest ECU was quite a thing for me to see because I rarely go to hospital and usually stay for as short as possible.
At one stage we had a lady who had been hit by a car in the next bed, an old lady with heart problems on the other side, and then a teenager with a broken knee and on and on it went. Car accidents, industrial accidents, crazy people walking around shouting sometimes but it was okay. I got a lot of respect for the doctors and nurses - grace under pressure. Not all the patients are grateful or easy.
But we got out before the drunks and drug addicts started showing up (nightfall) so all in all it was good day. In fact the best part of the day was seeing people come in sick and go out much better, like the lady who came in with blood pressure at 190 after they got her BP down to 130. Remarkable how some people changed from incoherent barely functioning wrecks to pretty much normal people after a few hours of care, like watching little miracles from the medicos. There is a lot of pressure on beds.
Mrs Horse is much better. She had the option to be admitted to hospital but she chose to come home because my TLC is better
A good thing to do if you have to go to hospital is take someone with you. That takes the pressure off the nurses, there is a lot of little things you can do to help the patient Also go early in the morning - no waiting
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