Would you let yourself be treated in a NY hospital...?

Question

Americans only:

Would you let yourself be treated in a NY hospital... knowing that the personnel there lets patients to die???

How much do you trust the American medical system NOW - after the shocking news about a woman patient who was left in agony for 1 hour (!) in a waiting room to die?

Answer 1

If I had no other choice, yes I would. However, I would prefer to go elsewhere. That was a shocking video

Answer 2

The real problem is that the ER's become over crowded and they are under staffed under payed and over worked.

This is the sad truth about American Health care. The insurance companies dictate how are Dr's and hospitals are reimbursed. Sometimes it is only for liturally dollars if anything at all that they are seeing these patients. A patient without health care insurance will almost never pay their bill so they get written off as free treatmnet.

Yes I know this is really sad. I also know it doesn't justify people dying in The ER. Yes the staff should have been attentive to her. They news also doesn't tell us if the people that walked pass her as she lay dying had any medical training. All hospital staff wear scrubs. The Janitors wear scrubs and so do many other dept in the hospital.

So this is my personal rule when going to the ER.

1. Never go alone

2. make sure that the person with you can and will speak for you and knows your condition.

3. treat all personel with respect and be polite at all times.

(this will help you and make your wait easier)

4. go to an urgent care if it is not life threatening.

(this will help control the over crowding in the ER)

Answer 3

My dad died in one, under the circumstances you describe. I figured this, cuz every time I visited him, he was like that, with no service.

The news is only "shocking" to someone who's never been in a hospital.

A freind of mine had a chicken bone lodged in his throat. He was in pain and carefully breathing. After driving himself to the hospital and waiting for 2 hours in the emergency room, he was told to fill out some forms. When he completed them, he swallowed the bone and left. He was later sent a bill for his "stay" at the emergency room.

It is much worse in other countries. In the UK, they recently had to pass a law, requiring people not have to wait more than FOUR hours! To circumvent this law, emergency personnel keep the patient in the ambulance, since they do not start the clock until the patient is actually in the emergency room!

DR GONZO, I can ASSURE you that insurance has nothing to do with it. Just ask the disproportionate amount of illegal aliens sitting in hospital beds across the country.

The poor have free health care in America, as do all immigrants, regardless of wealth.

So, I am not sure why this insurance issue keeps coming up. If you want insurance so bad, all you need to do is quit your job, or pretend you can't speak English.

Answer 4

I haven't trusted the medical system in the US for many years. However, if I had a serious condition like a brain tumor, the only place I'd be treated is in a NYC hospital.

Answer 5

Only if it were a jewish hospital or a NYU hospital. They are the best. I had two grandmothers who died in Queens hospitals. Queens hospitals are the absolute worst, even on trivial stuff. Staten Island and Brooklyn have decent doctors though. The Bronx is a gamble, however.

Answer 6

Well i live in england so it would probably be more convenient for me to use one here...but yeah seriously it is preety sick if u dont have insurance in the US have you ever watched sicko by michael moore?