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So it is not like I did not try getting a ride home. I already took the day off work for a procedure so I am not going to cancel just because I have no ride.
I’m not going to specify the hospitals I have visited but both times I had to use fake names and walk out on my own. Also I might add that one time I walked out of the hospital and tried flagging a cab for at least 5 minutes in the cold weather and none were lulling over. This was after a procedure so I needed to find a CVS for pain meds and just Go Home already, so had to walk multiple blocks and finally found a BUS!!! I bused home.
Not recommended. But look how the hospital almost structured it so it WAS a liability. I made it home safe though.
Another time after a procedure I did the same thing and felt halfway decent leaving but by the time I walked down into the subway I felt really yucky. In that case I should have got a cab because I felt like I could tough my way through it, and I chose the subway. By the time I walked down the steps onto the platform I started to feel very sick. I made it home okay though it was slightly scary.
I am not sure how one uses a fake name (in order to go alone) after going through a medical procedure where one would have shown photo identification with insurance card and the doctors/nurses know who one is.
A couple of times the particular person picking me up came by public transportation (because like many NYers they don't have a car) and they accompanied me home by public transportation. But one definitely shouldn't mention it if your escort is taking you home by public transportation (as medical facilities don't like that either).
Honestly, part of the “liability” is the hospital should arrange for a professional ride service home for all patients. The hospitals should be a required to provide a ride service home. Patients should not be having to depend on a friend, it should all be pre arranged with a guaranteed ride from the hospital to the home.
They have this available in Asia. In backwater countries like USA , they make things as complicated as possible
I work in healthcare.
Some folks are troopers and truly believe they are fully responsible for their own informed decisions. Others are opposite in both respects. It's the second group that forces health care offices to attempt to protect their patients. Yes, the rules are to protect you, but need to be structured to offer some protection to the provider as well.
NOBODY is being protected. It is a simple power play so common in the Medical profession. THEY know it all, patients know NOTHING.
After a few encounters, savvy patients soon learn this is ASS-BACKWARDS.
The medical profession ASSUMES it is more competent than it actually IS...at least in the United States.
NOBODY is being protected. It is a simple power play so common in the Medical profession. THEY know it all, patients know NOTHING.
After a few encounters, savvy patients soon learn this is ASS-BACKWARDS.
The medical profession ASSUMES it is more competent than it actually IS...at least in the United States.
NOBODY is being protected. It is a simple power play so common in the Medical profession. THEY know it all, patients know NOTHING.
After a few encounters, savvy patients soon learn this is ASS-BACKWARDS.
The medical profession ASSUMES it is more competent than it actually IS...at least in the United States.
Its not a power play. They want you out of office as soon as they can. Do you think they want you to hang around there?
The reason is liability. While you say you can go home by yourself, if something happens, people sue...and win. If courts ruled in favor of doctors in these kinds of situations, you wouldn't need these rules.
I gotta think this can be a great business opportunity in the big cities. Provide pick up for patients and if necessary an aide to stay with them.
I think there could be an issue of liability. Otherwise an AirBnB host could pick up the patient who would stay in a room in their home overnight. But I think there would be legal problems with that (liability problems with AirBnB, and medicolegal problems with the medical institution).
I think there could be an issue of liability. Otherwise an AirBnB host could pick up the patient who would stay in a room in their home overnight. But I think there would be legal problems with that (liability problems with AirBnB, and medicolegal problems with the medical institution).
There is a "hotel" for post-natal new moms and their infants staffed with among other things (IIRC) nurses and nursing assistants.
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