The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority recently announced the availability of a new smartphone app called Connected Care which allows users to view up-to-date information on ED wait times at the various hospitals in the area.
Taking Healthcare for Granted.
I suspect as a society, we are taking our healthcare system for granted … at least those of us in Canada. Maybe it’s just my imagination, but it seems like more and more patients we’ve seen coming into the ER are increasingly demanding, angered with unrealistic expectations, and overall ungrateful. What used to be a rare occurrence has now become so common that I expect some variation of the following first words out of …
Blame-shifting ER Wait Times onto Patients.
It recently came to my attention that the UK has been deploying a public health message with regards to ER wait times; more specifically, it looks like a public education campaign aimed at redirecting “inappropriate” visits away from emergency rooms. The premise is that many minor and non-life-threatening conditions can be (and should be) treated outside the ER, and that the onus is on the patients themselves to basically triage their own ailments. …