Our patients have frozen dinners to eat after the cafeteria is closed and packets of Sanka as a stand-in for coffee. We're constantly running short of supplies, and there's a nationwide shortage of IV Valium right now (thank goodness it's not a shortage of more critically-needed IV Meds, like Nicardipine or Propofol, etc, which there have been shortages of).
We don't have enough beds for all the people that we admit, and because we're a trauma center, we get like 6,000 transfers from other hospitals a year. We board people in the ER for days at a time. There are no pillows in the ER because we just don't have enough of them..
People get sick of the wait, get sick of being boarded in a hallway on a gurney and leave.
And these folks get rooms with a sofa.
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