Bad service in the ER?

traumawolfe posts a list of Rules of the ER in

customers_suck. Complaints start at the first comment, where it is pointed out that s/he ripped off the list from another site. People also point out, at various points and in various ways, that some of the demands/complaints are irrational. Many personal anecdotes are invoked on both sides and I learn more about hemorrhoids than I wanted to.

Others defend the OP and there is discussion of exactly how bitchy a patient is allowed to be.

Eventually, the OP deletes her journal, but the post remains.

stella4809 makes an off-topic post over here and people complain there as well.

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	vigilanterodent 2007-02-19 03:34 am UTC (link)
	How I pine for an NHS. PINE, I tells ya. (I once got into an argument with a Swedish transfer student who was bitching about Sweden's, and saying that she thought the American system was better. The long and short of her argument was, "Well, I'M from a wealthy family and can afford good health insurance, fuck all y'all who can't.") (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

papervolcano
2007-02-19 08:23 am UTC (link)

I had a flatmate who thought like that - he was adamant that things like National Insurance contributions were theft, because he had private health insurance, and people that couldn't afford private care were slackers who deserved what they got. As at the time I was having some pretty nasty joint problems and I couldn't afford the physio that made me able to eat and dress myself without crying in pain, this was the cause of many arguments in that house.

The NHS is in an atrocious state, but I wouldn't trade systems for the world.

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	(Anonymous) 2007-02-19 08:34 am UTC (link)
	Oh, I know people like that. Fuck them. If it weren't for the NHS, I'd be dead or bankrupt by now. And my sister's arm would be paralysed. The system is pretty screwed, yeah, but it's better than nothing. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2007-02-19 09:53 pm UTC (link)
	I'm from Sweden, so that student made me go "WTF" until I got to the "wealthy family" part. headdesks Sure, the Swedish system can be better... but it WORKS, and I prefer it from what I've heard about the American system. Did she have ANY other reason for disliking the Swedish system? (Also, please tell me you hit her?) - animejosse (Reply to this)(Parent)

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