When to go to the emergency room and when not to? A doctor answers

Among other things, the early signal for 2024 is marked by a wave of respiratory infections In form of Pipiola variant of corona virus Wave Influenza A. A witness who has spent the last weeks of 2023 and who is a health professional Health Center simultaneously emergency services Spanish hospitals, which have become ‘packed’ with patients with these conditions.

it health decline has revived some latent debates in the Sangh, such as patients Those who go to the emergency room because of ‘avoidable’ or ‘low priority’ issues delay primary care. In this sense, a doctor Accept the test or recipe you want to speak on from this area.

In regards to the countless debates over whether you should go to the emergency room for X or Y, let me repeat my opinion. It’s your right to go to the emergency room for whatever you want. But if they take 8 hours to serve you and tell you it’s nothing and send you away without any test or prescription, then accept it.

-SM (@SM_Horseman) 29 December 2023

‘General’ consultations and waiting lists

As an example, he has used, precisely, the ‘avalanche’ of respiratory infections. National Health System (SNS), Remember that health workers advise people suffering from flu symptoms “not to consult other than alarm data to avoid relapse and infection among vulnerable people on these dates.” He cites the waiting list to warn those who ‘skip’ this guideline saturation of health servicesWhich means that this type of counseling is one of the reasons for delay in medical aid: “The day you have to wait for 4 hours even though there is some urgent work, you already know why.”

Without leaving the list of reasons why there are not enough hands Hospitals and health centres, He also took the opportunity to mention patients who request ‘a la carte’ tests that are not necessary without thinking carefully about the impact on the SNS. Furthermore, he reminded that there are people who take these dynamics to extremes and lie to get what they said health intervention, Delaying the turn of other patients whose treatment is more urgent.

SNS deterioration

But once these questions were clarified, this doctor wanted to emphasize that SNS deterioration “It is not the fault of the health workers or the users,” and both parties have a responsibility to take care of it as best they can. He said, “I have already told you that most of the health workers neglect their health and swallow what they should not, there is no harm in asking the patients to be cautious.”

Health care is in a state of disrepair, it is not the fault of the health workers or the users. We should try to take care of it together. I already told you that most of the health workers neglect their health and swallow what they should not, so there is no harm in asking the patients to be cautious.

-SM (@SM_Horseman) 29 December 2023

Nor did he want to ignore the role of doctor and nurse In this challenge, who is none other than counseling and educating patients Above Reasons to go to the emergency room And those in whom it would be better to stay at home. He considers himself one of those professionals who mentors and advises everyone who comes to his office, but he admits that not everyone behaves this way.