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Originally Posted by AOII Angel
I'll have to do some searching about that, but it's a commonly held opinion taught at med schools throughout the country. I guess I shouldn't pass on info that I haven't seen myself, but I have a feeling that this is true since the most expensive part of medical care is ICU care. Add in all of the daily radiologic examinations, specialists charges and long length of stay, and the bills get astronomical. I'll post if I find anything definitive.
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I have heard it directly from the Chief of ER at a large LA hospital that folks use ER care as routine healthcare... I guess if the pain is too much, folks feel better at the ER... IDK? But the ER care only stabilizes the patient until the "next step"...
The other issue is chronic diseases that most folks who are older get--heart attacks, strokes, etc... I've seen someone in his late 50's who needed a liver transplant, but the dobutamine echo showed his heart could not take the transplant due to the ath plaques. Now, if I can tell on an echo and I am not a sonographer, then this patient was far off...
Was he in pain, probably so. He needed a new liver--I think his was cirrhotic, but the fact remains, we aren't there yet with advances in technology--which means, that we have to take very good care with what we've got...
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