Submitted by kfstark on Fri, 2006-06-16 00:27
NPR : Study: Emergency Rooms at 'Breaking Point':
This story really resonated with me after my experience at the Children's Hospital in Las Vegas. You can read my letter to the Assemblyman of the 10th district after our 2003 emergency room visit.
What can we do about our emergency rooms? We need to reduce their load by doing the following:
- A preventative approach to health care to reduce emergency needs.
- Access to affordable health care outside of the emergency room for non-emergency cases
Our 7 year old son (the same one from the letter) recently broke his arm playing on the monkey bars at school. We did not take him to the emergency room. Instead, we took him to a local pediatric orthopedist who was able to see him on an urgent basis. Within 3 hours, we had been seen, the arm set and a cast put on. We were home 4 hours after the accident.
If we had gone to the emergency room, we might have still been there when school started the next morning.
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