ErnestGoesToPoop t1_j9js9yl wrote on February 22, 2023 at 2:01 PM

Reply to comment by Ok_Journalist3388 in what's your preferred hospital to go to? by MsDemiBurch

I had heard this warning from many people before but recently i needed an ER and didn’t have time to go to the city so I ended up at JCMC. I was surprised at how empty the waiting room was and how quick I got seen. The facilities are also pretty clean.

I was becoming doubtful of these bad reviews until i realized it had been 4 hours since I was checked in with little to no contact with a doc. Sitting in a hallway no less

Economy-Cupcake808 t1_j9kgjfd wrote on February 22, 2023 at 5:14 PM

Hospital ERs have bad reviews because nobody wants to have to go to an emergency room. There are also a lot of people who go to emergency rooms for non emergency needs. Like obviously those people are gonna have to wait until the people who are dying get treated first

Ok_Journalist3388 t1_j9l0p6u wrote on February 22, 2023 at 7:17 PM

This is so wrong on so many levels. There are plenty of ER rooms out there that have competent enough leadership who is able to create a reasonable triage process so that all emergencies dying or otherwise are taken care of appropriately. To leave anyone sitting in a waiting room for 5 hrs without treatment is pure negligence. And blaming bad reviews on people just not liking ERs is lazy.

_daysofcandy_ t1_j9t0l2n wrote on February 24, 2023 at 10:07 AM

I wish more people understood some of the factors that play into long waits in the ER instead of looking to get angry in an instant, especially with the struggle of staffing compared to patient volume.

MsDemiBurch OP t1_j9kzvps wrote on February 22, 2023 at 7:12 PM

To be fair emergencies take many different forms. Like for example I had 2 bad infections one time when I went to the hospital and I barley had much pain & no fever, so I was treated as I was fine but after tests were done the doctors were freaked out lol. So the er should try their best to treat everyone accordingly if possible but we dont live in perfect world I guess.

But I agree no one wants to deal with the er unless they have to. Unless they are hobos for some reasons lol

MsDemiBurch OP t1_j9kyuua wrote on February 22, 2023 at 7:05 PM

Sounds so bad. I'm sorry you had that experience. It's kind of hard expect a super fast hospital experience since it is er but they should be checking in here and there.