The healthcare industry needs to specify the difference between an urgent care and emergency room. This is absolutely horrible and the lack of education to the public is to blame for this. We constantly see inappropriate patient complaints go to the urgent care because they think its a drive through version of the ER. As healthcare professionals it is imperative to educate patients about what is appropriate for urgent care and what requires emergency care to prevent these types of situations
I will say we try to explain to patients what is appropriate for urgent care and what is not. However, the cost as I said in this video is a large part of the issue with patients refusing to go to ED when it’s imperative. Thanks for watching
I appreciate your perspective, I work in a large hospital in the finance end and it’s sometimes very difficult to explain these things to patients and see the way the healthcare system is operating. I can only hope that someone at that urgent mentioned to the patient that he can seek help at the emergency room without paying upfront at least.
I know for a fact when treating patients we explain when it’s necessary to go to the ED. We continue to get push back. I am sure they probably advised the ED. I can’t say for sure but most time the UC will say go to ED. Thanks for watching
We are lucky to have Registered Nurses working in our urgent cares. Our office staff is required to call the nurses out to triage in these types of situations. If he couldn't breathe, why didn't he head to the ER??? We don't have enough information to judge this case (health history, substance abuse, treatment non-compliance, etc). I had a patient whose SpO2 was 82% and he was struggling to breathe. He refused an ambulance transport (stating cost) and ended up driving himself to the ER. We made him sign an AMA form before he left.
It is just very wrong! Care should come first before profit. But you know what I havw been hearing this kind of case every now and then around the world.
That is what I stated in the video that we don’t know if he was in any distress. If he was the 💯 he needed to be evaluated there and taken to the ED. Thanks for watching
From an ethical perspective, healthcare should be a human right. I can't justify someone losing their life because they could not afford a medical service. It's inhuman. I am not an economist or an intellectual, but my moral compass doesn't allow me to justify treating another human's life as expendable. Some right-wingers want to explain it saying that it's too expensive, but to me that's nonsense. Other countries have lower healthcare costs than us and are not ruined because of it. We are perfectly capable of doing the same, it's just that insurers, big pharma, and everyone else involved are too greedy to care about others.
As a fellow Jamaican nurse practitioner who now works in USA, I would love if you form and pronounce your words better. It’s okay to speak standard English without twanging. All positive energy. As we speak about your video I think you are making excuses for the urgent care. I personally believe we should at least do the vitals signs of patients before turning them away. I know this isn’t practiced to avoid accountability and it’s sad. In this young man’s case, if he collapsed from a respiratory failure few hours after leaving the urgent care, his oxygen levels would clearly be abnormal. Health care in the USA is all about money. healthcare organizations in the USA don’t really care about patients. They care about reputation and income . I had urgent care turned me a way to go find a primary care physician knowing damn well in my state , we have to wait months to get an appointment. I had insurance. At that point he was only sending me home to develop complications. I demanded he checked my blood sugar and labs and for the entire time he complained that he was breaking protocol and he was going to get yelled at. Isn’t that crazy? They only wanted to collect my money just to tell me to go to primary care with an ongoing issue I was having. The system Is crazy. American doctors and NP are trained to be like robots and it’s sad. These organization should be held accountable.
Thank you for watching. I don’t think I made any excuse for the urgent care. I respect that is your opinion on how I presented. I stated in this video that healthcare in America is profit over patient which is sad. The protocols in place many of us do not just go along with, some of them we have no choice because our hands are tied. You are right, the system is crazy! One 💚
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The healthcare industry needs to specify the difference between an urgent care and emergency room. This is absolutely horrible and the lack of education to the public is to blame for this. We constantly see inappropriate patient complaints go to the urgent care because they think its a drive through version of the ER. As healthcare professionals it is imperative to educate patients about what is appropriate for urgent care and what requires emergency care to prevent these types of situations
Facts!
I will say we try to explain to patients what is appropriate for urgent care and what is not. However, the cost as I said in this video is a large part of the issue with patients refusing to go to ED when it’s imperative. Thanks for watching
I appreciate your perspective, I work in a large hospital in the finance end and it’s sometimes very difficult to explain these things to patients and see the way the healthcare system is operating. I can only hope that someone at that urgent mentioned to the patient that he can seek help at the emergency room without paying upfront at least.
I know for a fact when treating patients we explain when it’s necessary to go to the ED. We continue to get push back. I am sure they probably advised the ED. I can’t say for sure but most time the UC will say go to ED. Thanks for watching
Wow! Thank God for the uk .
Absolutely love this style Laurie please more of these!!
Thanks for watching!
We are lucky to have Registered Nurses working in our urgent cares. Our office staff is required to call the nurses out to triage in these types of situations. If he couldn't breathe, why didn't he head to the ER??? We don't have enough information to judge this case (health history, substance abuse, treatment non-compliance, etc). I had a patient whose SpO2 was 82% and he was struggling to breathe. He refused an ambulance transport (stating cost) and ended up driving himself to the ER. We made him sign an AMA form before he left.
This happens a lot! Thanks for watching
I love the way you edit your videos I love watching your videos I'm your biggest fan youmake awesome videos you make amazing videos
This is such a sad story. Its too bad he never checked into the ER. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for listening! Very sad
Great video as always 👍🏾👏🏾🤗🤎 and so sad he got turned around because he couldn’t pay that’s ridiculous 🤦🏾♀️
So sad!
Urgent care is like Africa If you can’t pay they will not care for you. Praying for him.
It is just very wrong! Care should come first before profit. But you know what I havw been hearing this kind of case every now and then around the world.
💯 thanks for watching
If he was in visible distress someone should have called an ambulance, or he should have left and immediately gone to the ER.
That is what I stated in the video that we don’t know if he was in any distress. If he was the 💯 he needed to be evaluated there and taken to the ED. Thanks for watching
From an ethical perspective, healthcare should be a human right. I can't justify someone losing their life because they could not afford a medical service. It's inhuman. I am not an economist or an intellectual, but my moral compass doesn't allow me to justify treating another human's life as expendable. Some right-wingers want to explain it saying that it's too expensive, but to me that's nonsense. Other countries have lower healthcare costs than us and are not ruined because of it. We are perfectly capable of doing the same, it's just that insurers, big pharma, and everyone else involved are too greedy to care about others.
As a fellow Jamaican nurse practitioner who now works in USA, I would love if you form and pronounce your words better. It’s okay to speak standard English without twanging. All positive energy.
As we speak about your video I think you are making excuses for the urgent care. I personally believe we should at least do the vitals signs of patients before turning them away. I know this isn’t practiced to avoid accountability and it’s sad. In this young man’s case, if he collapsed from a respiratory failure few hours after leaving the urgent care, his oxygen levels would clearly be abnormal. Health care in the USA is all about money. healthcare organizations in the USA don’t really care about patients. They care about reputation and income . I had urgent care turned me a way to go find a primary care physician knowing damn well in my state , we have to wait months to get an appointment. I had insurance. At that point he was only sending me home to develop complications. I demanded he checked my blood sugar and labs and for the entire time he complained that he was breaking protocol and he was going to get yelled at. Isn’t that crazy? They only wanted to collect my money just to tell me to go to primary care with an ongoing issue I was having. The system
Is crazy. American doctors and NP are trained to be like robots and it’s sad. These organization should be held accountable.
Thank you for watching. I don’t think I made any excuse for the urgent care. I respect that is your opinion on how I presented. I stated in this video that healthcare in America is profit over patient which is sad. The protocols in place many of us do not just go along with, some of them we have no choice because our hands are tied. You are right, the system is crazy! One 💚
Great video Laurie, very informative. You look great also 🫶🏾 lighting and skin is a ten.
Thanks sis!!
Hello everyone thanks so much for watching! let me know your thoughts on this video
this is the go fund me for this young man if you are interested in it
gofund.me/5649711f