If I have to see one more patient with a fever, cough, and sorethroat I am just going to die! With all this swine flu craziness we have been busier than ever at the emergency room! Every person in San Bernardino county who has the sniffles is coming into Arrowhead Regional Medical Center Emergency Room to be checked and treated for the swine flu. I have been working over the last few days, and it is just CHAOS! The waiting room is completely full with barely any standing room. Every patient is wearing a mask even if they came in for toe pain. And now we have set up tents outside for all of our flu patients to wait in. I think that our patients think we have some special treatment for the flu...but we don't. Or they think they have to be admitted to the hospital if this is what they have. Our ER doesn't even have a test to tell you if you have the flu. If a patient meets certain criteria, we send a test out to the lab, but who knows how long that takes! If you have the flu do youself (and the ER) a favor and stay home!
If I have to see one more patient with a fever, cough, and sorethroat I am just going to die! With all this swine flu craziness we have been busier than ever at the emergency room! Every person in San Bernardino county who has the sniffles is coming into Arrowhead Regional Medical Center Emergency Room to be checked and treated for the swine flu. I have been working over the last few days, and it is just CHAOS! The waiting room is completely full with barely any standing room. Every patient is wearing a mask even if they came in for toe pain. And now we have set up tents outside for all of our flu patients to wait in. I think that our patients think we have some special treatment for the flu...but we don't. Or they think they have to be admitted to the hospital if this is what they have. Our ER doesn't even have a test to tell you if you have the flu. If a patient meets certain criteria, we send a test out to the lab, but who knows how long that takes! If you have the flu do youself (and the ER) a favor and stay home!
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