We?re used to stress in the ER. But omicron has made our jobs impossible.
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Walking into a shift in the emergency department these days feels a bit like entering a disaster zone.There are 50-odd patients in the waiting room needing to be seen. We’re holding a half-dozen acute mental health patients who desperately need care, because there’s no room in psychiatric hospitals. And a couple dozen more patients have been waiting on emergency department stretchers for hours after evaluation, until an intensive care unit, medical or surgical bed becomes available. At the very least, all those delayed surgeries, postponed preventive-care visits and untreated mental health problems are going to show up, and patients will need care that is simply not there.My colleagues and I will keep showing up for work.
As said here by Megan L. Ranney