People with mild discomfort (e.g. a persistent cough) fill up most of the emergency rooms where I’m from, since the hospital is free. Unfortunately what this means is if you have a non life threatening problem, you have to wait in the same room as people with colds and flues that should be in bed waiting it out and eating soup.
People with mild discomfort (e.g. a persistent cough) fill up most of the emergency rooms where I’m from, since the hospital is free. Unfortunately what this means is if you have a non life threatening problem, you have to wait in the same room as people with colds and flues that should be in bed waiting it out and eating soup.
I’ve been coughing for like 6 months now. Long covid, and I’ve been told it can last over a year.
That’s obviously not what I mean.
Here in the states, people fill up the ER not because its free… its because they legally cant turn you away without looking at you first…
to be fair, if you have a bad case of the flues you should be in the ER.
A bad case, yes.