A Trip to the ER 

A Trip to the ER

Spent this evening in the emergency room with my wife. She called me at work to tell me she fell down and thought she dislocated her knee. I found out how fast the Mazda 3 will go. I got there about the same time as the squad. It looked pretty bad but after a couple hours in the emergency room it turns out to be a bad sprain so it could have been a lot worse. Seems like every time I have been in an emergency room it is chaos. I always wonder how people aren’t just dropping like flies from medical mistakes in emergency rooms. It is also always nice to have the obligatory drunk in there to liven things up. Now I get to look forward to the maze of paperwork for the hospital and insurance companies. You go to the emergency room and you get bills from every doctor that walks by, the radiologist, the hospital and others. It seems a lot of money could be saved just by paperwork consolidation. I know the doctors, radiologists and such are really independent but it seems there would be a way to do it. It would save a lot of grief for the patients and improve efficiency for the providers.