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Originally Posted by Rose76
They said the ER was there to provide "stop-gap" remedies, but that I could pursue other things through referrals on an out-patient basis. Seemed irresponsible to me. They said I should ask my provider to request diagnostic procedures. She's a phyician's assistant. They put too much on the shoulders of a P.A. - primary care provider. Last week they said they would send her an electronic message encouraging her to work on referrals.
Well, I go in 20 minutes to endoscopy.
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Good luck. Yeah you are right about ER, when my mom was in ER she contacted her GP (or they did) and the ball start rolling. PA should take care of business similar like the doctor would in a sense of referring patients. ER wouldn’t make that decision. I wasn’t thinking right when I said they would do it. Not on their own
Now when I think of it ER doesn’t always make the right decision, likely because they are short staffed and focused on extreme cases.
Last time my husband was in ER (abscess erc) they sent him home few hours later (said it doesn’t look that bad) but I had to drive him back two days later because he was so much worse and he was in the hospital for a week after and two weeks at home on IV.
Doctor kept saying so much time was lost because he was sent home from ER for no reason, it was a weekend too so GP wasn’t reachable. And it’s the same hospital my husband is RN at and they know him and it’s in general not a bad hospital. Still!
But something with ERs is just not situated. He was sent to ER from the urgent care to just be sent home virtually with no treatment. Seems like the case in many hospitals