Thursday, November 17, 2011

Revision of blog #7 "The woman who died in the waiting room"

           I have heard stories of people dying in the hospital waiting area in other countries but not in the United States. This came as a surprise to everyone I believe. " The women who died in the waiting room" written by Jeneen Interlandi, talks about a 49 years old women, who passed away in a waiting room of a Brooklyn hospital. She fell out of her chair and was struggling between two chairs for 20 minutes, while nurses and security cameras failed to help her. After 40 minutes, a nurse went to check up on her, but by that time the helpless woman passed away. " Public hospitals across the country have struggled to provide acute psychiatric care to the poor and uninsured", I completely agree with the author's statement.

              Sometimes it makes me wonder why people especially highly educated people fail to understand the meaning of the word " Emergency". One reason why I agree with the author's statement is because last summer I had to make a trip to the emergency room in my neighborhood. My younger cousin fell off from his bike and got a pretty deep cut on his forehead. I somehow managed to stop the bleeding, but we all know how kids react when they get injured. I rushed him to the emergency room and was waiting there for good 3 hours to be seen. Finally, one nurse came and give him stitches. I am aware of the fact that our economical condition isn't that stable now, but we cannot compromise with people's health.
           
          Many people cannot afford medical insurance, therefore they cant make regular visits to the doctors.
Even though their illnesses can be cured with just regular medication, they happen to make more visits to the
emergency.Another reason why I agree with the author's statement is because my tenant was really sick passed winter.After going to apply for medical insurance many times he gave up. He was too sick so his wife took him to the hospital. The hospital bill was really high that they told my parents, they wont be able to pay the rent on time for that month. His wife mentioned to me that after spending so much money for the medication, along with the hospital bill, she really didn't think the service was worth it. She seen nurses mostly taking their time and doing their own things at a very slow pace.

          These are two examples of some incidents I have been though and heard of. As we all can see and tell that hospitals in the United States need more work to be done. They need to hire more people to be able to give better service.

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