Healthcare Update Satellite – 01-30-2014

More medical news from around the web over on my other blog at DrWhitecoat.com St. Barnabas Hospital in Bronx, NY registers a patient in emergency department to be seen for a rash. Told to go sit in the emergency department. Was called several times over the loudspeaker but didn’t answer. Found “stiff, cold, and blue” 8 hours later. An unnamed hospital employee told news that the man died because there is “not enough staff to take care of the number of patients we see each day.” Comment sections of both articles about the story have created a crowd of people with torches and pitchforks relating their own ED horror stories and demanding to know how hospital staff could be so stupid not to know that rashes could be deadly. Virginia emergency department closed four hours due to … bedbugs. I’m guessing that they aren’t just in the ED, but that’s another story. Repeal and replace. Republicans offer framework for a health care plan to replace ObamaCare. Will it work? I wonder if telling everyone “you have to pass it to find out what’s in it” would suffice. Go to one San Jose, CA hospital emergency department without insurance and you’ll get someone offering to sign you up for ObamaCare while you’re sitting in the waiting room. Doctors Medical Center, the largest emergency department in California’s West County with more than 41,000 visits per year at risk of closing – due to lack of fund...
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