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- From: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Questions for MDs
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- Date: 23 Jul 92 19:08:18 GMT
- References: <15699@pitt.UUCP> <1992Jul20.200017.6677@island.COM> <15784@pitt.UUCP>
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- In article <15784@pitt.UUCP> km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul20.200017.6677@island.COM> green@island.COM (Robert Greenstein) writes:
- >>In article <15699@pitt.UUCP> km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum) writes:
-
- >>>Are you related to the lady who came into the ER wanting to know when
- >>>I would WAIT on her? I'm sorry, but I don't think the shoe salesman
-
- >>Please tell me what is so HORRIBLE about this. Are doctor's egos so
- >>big that the thought of being addressed in the same manner as one might
- >>address a shoe salesman is enough to cause a hissy fit?
-
- >Excuse me. The next time I go into a shoe store where the salesman
- >has been on his feet the past 12 hours with 50 patients, 3 cardiac
- >arrests, 2 major trauma cases, and a bunch of prissy private doctors
- >on the phone telling him what to do with the little old lady with
- >gas, I'll address him differently.
-
- If that is the situation, we need more doctors! If you have been on
- your feet for the past 12 hours, *I* personally am unwilling to trust
- your ability to act in a competent medical manner. Now I admit that
- occasionally in a small town, or if there is a major disaster, this may
- be necessary, but if the facilities often get overloaded in this manner,
- there is no semblance of an adequate ER facility available.
-
- If the shoe store acted that way, they would lose customers. If there
- was ER competition, an ER which treated patients that way should lose
- its business as well.
-
- BTW, in some cities, police ambulances are required to take patients to
- the nearest available ER to avoid favoritism, and even against the
- request of the still-conscious victims. But it is only competition
- which can provide quality.
- --
- Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
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