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In reply to the discussion: Fire chief to 10 yr old sobbing Black girl as she's loaded into ambulance: "Shut the f*** up!" "Shut your mouth!" [View all]Hornedfrog2000
(866 posts)But we do see the same people over, and over and over. Some dont pay a dime so they call 911 for everything. It is sucking our resources dry, and making people quit. This is a symptom imo. When all the baby boomers are needing medical care in the next 10 years we are going to have really hard decisions to make, because there already isnt enough people to care for all of the people who need care.
Research borderline personality disorder, and see what sort of things they are known for, and what they do. I know of patients who are literally in the hospital every other week, and it burns you out because they come in, and they play games, yes, games. They waste resources, and time while people die on the street. It is unsustainable.
We have people who dump their kids at the hospital on friday nights, and we have people whose sole diagnosis is behavioral, or in other words, they dont belong in the hospital. Yet they are admitted over and over again because providers are scared of being sued.
The hospital is not daycare, we cannot raise your child, we are not a place to take a vacation. Many of these patients exhibit anti social personality traits as well.