Interesting, where are you? It’s more or less the opposite here (Austria). Hospitals will let you wait for ages (like 2 hours, possibly even more if it’s particularly busy) if you walk in with something that doesn’t require immediate treatment and/or their more advanced machines, and they’ll tell you you shouldn’t waste emergency resources for that stuff. I’m talking about COVID or the flu or things like that as a healthy young adult. But GPs will always take walk-ins for immediate issues. Mine has a wait time of 10-30 mins for walk-ins.
usa. You wait hours here even if it is pretty immediate. I have seen a guy bleeding through hand towels from chainsaw accidents waiting hours. What im talking about though is a legitimate emergency sends you (or in this case my wife) the the er. When you are stable enough to leave they direct you to follow up with your primary and that is where it still take a month to get that follow up. Even though you were in the ER and the ER does not really fix you up completely they just basically get to where your not in danger of dying in the near term.
Interesting, where are you? It’s more or less the opposite here (Austria). Hospitals will let you wait for ages (like 2 hours, possibly even more if it’s particularly busy) if you walk in with something that doesn’t require immediate treatment and/or their more advanced machines, and they’ll tell you you shouldn’t waste emergency resources for that stuff. I’m talking about COVID or the flu or things like that as a healthy young adult. But GPs will always take walk-ins for immediate issues. Mine has a wait time of 10-30 mins for walk-ins.
usa. You wait hours here even if it is pretty immediate. I have seen a guy bleeding through hand towels from chainsaw accidents waiting hours. What im talking about though is a legitimate emergency sends you (or in this case my wife) the the er. When you are stable enough to leave they direct you to follow up with your primary and that is where it still take a month to get that follow up. Even though you were in the ER and the ER does not really fix you up completely they just basically get to where your not in danger of dying in the near term.