If the deck of an Aircraft Carrier is the busiest and most dangerous part of the entire ship, the Emergency Room, or ER, is the counterpart inside a hospital. In fact, it may even be worse because Emergency Rooms can be highly unpredictable.
No one can predict when a gunshot victim, the result of a robbery, will come in. Nor can anyone predict when multiple construction workers, injured by a collapsed building, will come in.
From a relaxed environment where doctors and interns get to pretend that wheelchairs are bumper cars, the place changes in to a serious area full of wild activity. Doctors will be shouting; nurses will be running; relatives will be crying; and patients may be dying.
It is during this time that patients are at their most vulnerable. And any mistake, even a minor one, by healthcare professionals, can dictate whether a person lives or dies.
And when a patient does die, the attending physicians will always end up saying that they did all that they could for the patient. And that dying was just not something they could hold back, given the seriousness of a patient’s injuries.
Naturally, questions will be asked by the surviving relatives. And it is possible that the truth will be obscured by healthcare professionals in order to protect their jobs.
Given this lack of cooperation, surviving relatives may have to resort to filing for medical negligence compensation just so they can learn the truth of what happened. And with the truth, the surviving ones may begin to find closure.
No one can predict when a gunshot victim, the result of a robbery, will come in. Nor can anyone predict when multiple construction workers, injured by a collapsed building, will come in.
From a relaxed environment where doctors and interns get to pretend that wheelchairs are bumper cars, the place changes in to a serious area full of wild activity. Doctors will be shouting; nurses will be running; relatives will be crying; and patients may be dying.
It is during this time that patients are at their most vulnerable. And any mistake, even a minor one, by healthcare professionals, can dictate whether a person lives or dies.
And when a patient does die, the attending physicians will always end up saying that they did all that they could for the patient. And that dying was just not something they could hold back, given the seriousness of a patient’s injuries.
Naturally, questions will be asked by the surviving relatives. And it is possible that the truth will be obscured by healthcare professionals in order to protect their jobs.
Given this lack of cooperation, surviving relatives may have to resort to filing for medical negligence compensation just so they can learn the truth of what happened. And with the truth, the surviving ones may begin to find closure.
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