Comment on Patients clogging up A&E with hiccups, sore throats and niggles
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Canada has three options: Call the GP, but they will not see you for days-week. Go to an urgent care facility, last option is go to ER.
But from the other side, all of those flu patients do not need to be there, there is no magic pill for flu. 99% are just sick with a virus and no MD can do anything about that. Perhaps we need chicken soup triage centres staffed by Jewish bubbes. It’s your fault for not wearing a jacket.
Most of England cut their urgent care clinics during the last Tory decade of cuts, so that option isn’t here any more, mostly, which is why ERs are having to handle those patients, which they aren’t intended for.
Maybe the flu itself can’t be treated, but some of the complications can be lethal if not treated and that’s what scares people into seeking help.
fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Ah what better than hot chicken soup, the cure for all colds…