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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kahrohseh
2007-02-20 04:37 pm UTC (link)

Echoes of Gilliam's Brazil there. I completely concur. Still, I'd like to feel that a country properly sorted out can be advanced and not kill its own citizens. But then, we're also a country whose current dictator believes in the "sanctity of life" enough to ban stem cell research and gay marriage, but treats the tens of thousands of Iraqi deaths as an interesting factoid. And thinks that giving a tax break on health insurance when most who don't have it are too poor to pay taxes is an excellent damn solution.

May I ask, where are you from, and can I move there?

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luxshine
2007-02-20 05:20 pm UTC (link)

Mexico. Unfortunately, we are not much better as the extreme-extreme right has just gotten themselves into power and, well, they like to follow the steps of mr.Sanctity of life.

(On the plus side, gay marriage has been legalized, and there's at least one ER that will not only take you no matter what you have, or if you have insurance or not, but also will not charge you at all for the service. And a health insurance policy that more or less goes to the fact that if you have a job, you get health insurance. So it's a situation where you have to decide if it's a half full glass or a half empty one)

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