Green Patients
Follow-up on my Green Medicine post; there’s a very easy way to reduce the usage of supplies in the hospital: PATIENTS, QUIT GETTING SICK!
No, seriously–if you care about the environment, take your medications and follow-up with your outpatient doctor regularly; you’re less likely develop common diseases that require admission, paperwork, and supplies to diagnose and treat you: congestive heart failure, COPD exacerbations, pneumonias, heart attacks, strokes–the list goes on and on.
If I see one more patient in the ER with an URI at 3am, after taking a few of their friend’s “leftover” antibiotics that amazingly didn’t work, when they could have gone to the Health Department / Urgent Care Clinic at a more reasonable hour (and yes, usually they could have), and used significantly less resources (it seems like we have to do CYA CXR’s with every patient), I’m going to lose it.
No worries! I don’t go to the ER unless I’m leaking CSF after one of my brain surgeries or I’m gushing blood from an incision (da** Ehlers-Danlos)! Otherwise FORGET IT! That would drive me nuts too!
Take good care!
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