ER days cinco y seis

I'll be honest I'm not feeling particularly thoughtful what with the computer problems I've had all day long.

Yesterday was anticlimactic. Quite boring on the surface. Really just went through the motions and asked more of the nurses. Hung out with them to bond and establish rapport. Chatted with the PCTs. I paid attention that I could to the little children. And I began to smell the rankor that is the welfare citizens of America.

Today I became conscious of the friends I have made in the PCTs. The friendly Med Scribes were around and they made my day so much brighter! The nurses thanked me and Elena for my work. I had lunch/dinner with Percy. It was so refreshing to get to know someone new. It's been so long since I've made friends in higher places. I realize even now that though I am but a small person who really knows a lot of nothing, we all know alot of different things. It is only in taking life a stride at a time and surfing wikipedia and gobbling up information that I will be able to learn more about everthing.

Anyway, I was quite busy today and when I wasn't I hung out with PCTs and the new nurse at fast track. There were a fair amount of pelvic exams to take care of. No one was happy about those for we all vented about it. Which lead me to wonder, but not in full detail, of the use and abuse of the ER system. So many utilize the ER as their primary care. I can't help but wonder if the socialized healthcare would aleviate this abuse. I heard a doctor berrate a patient for complaining of waiting for so long for care. He said something along the lines of if you had gone to the primary doctor you wouldnt need to be here waiting when we have REAL cases here. I was held back 15 minutes because I was listening to a patient complain about her lazy nurse and slow care at Trauma. So I paid her attention and a pillow. She verbalized what I was pondering all day: the extremes in the ER. Does the wide spectrum of cases negatively effect patient care? Can health-care be fascilitated with the elimination of such areas as fast track. She proposed primary care work longer hours. Personally, I think she ought to be patient. It's the best we've got right now and there are plenty of other peope dying in the same room. The nerve of people thinking we wait on them only. I watched the PCT draw blood from her. All in all I spent a bit of a good time in Trauma. Even Twanda saw me. I moved my first stretcher today; that was quite a difficult experience.

So that was my deepest thought of the day. Can I really deal with cheap people in a setting where they think waiting for an hour is a travesty? In a world where money is constantly lost and the filth of the world come in for free food expecting to be treated with all benefits. It's a true test of what it means to work for the good of others, being a true servant upholding the purest and most difficult of virtues.