America's Stunningly Overpriced Healthcare System In 2 Charts

[magical thyme]

97. I know you don't provide healthcare, and I know you are on the receiving end.

and I'm sorry that your life has required so many trips to the ER.

I am on the opposite coast in a tiny rural hospital. Your wait will not be 8-12 hours for care here. Lab orders are typically entered within 45-60 minutes of your presenting at registration. If you are a chest pain, your troponin, CMP and CBC results will be reported within 60 minutes of your presenting with chest pain.

We have patients abusing the system here. I know this for a fact because sometimes they have confessed to me and other times I have seen the looks on spouse's faces and seen them mouth apologies. And when a series of 20-something, giggling young women present with dizziness and fainting, and everything tests out normal, you pretty much know they are malingering. And yes, along with trying to order us around when we try to draw them, they are openly giggling about what they think they are getting away with.

We have an abysmal lab system that is spreading along the coast, managed by coercion and threats and the lowest pay in the state. We have a university based training system where they continue to blatantly lie to incoming students about job prospects and HR people who blatantly lie about the starting salary.

It is one of the most unprofessionally managed operations I have ever had the misfortune to work at, in 40 years of working.

Mercifully, I have found an exit and started back part time at my old job last week. I know the score there, and as soon as a full time operation opens and my salary there permits, I will leave the hospital environment for good.

I expect this non profit hospital to continue to decline, as they have been taken off the state's preferred vendor list for being too expensive.