Originally Posted by
Mitsu3000gt
Good luck finding efficiencies in a Hospital environment like the emergency department where they aren't allowed to turn people away for any reason, so some homeless guy who comes in says he has chest pain (the guaranteed way to get in fast) just to get a soft bed for the night gets $10K of diagnostics for nothing. Further to that, to avoid a malpractice suit, the doctors order lots of testing to be thorough but also to cover their own ass (the doctors also get paid per test they order). AHS is a complete disaster but I feel like the changes that would actually make a major difference (i.e. not admitting 90% of people who show up because it's not an actual emergency and they haven't even tried going to a clinic/GP) are impossible. The problem is they would get sued the one time they turned someone away who ended up having a major problem, so they have to treat everyone the same and run tests on absolutely everyone. Believe me, the staff would LOVE things to be done differently. It's one of those situations where the solutions are obvious, but they can't implement them for the 1% of times it doesn't work or they're wrong.
Personally I think they should do a 3 strike system for "frequent flyers" who are drug seeking or bed seeking, but one day one of those people would be turned away and would die, so you're back to square one. Same deal if you haven't gone to your GP/Clinic first and it's obviously not an emergency - you should just be sent home at that point. Again, will never happen.