Emergency!
December 3, 2010 -- This month I am completing my clinical rotations with a stint in the emergency room of a major local hospital. I have seen some awfully sick people walk in that automatic door or, worse, roll in on gurneys and wheelchairs. It is sobering to see suffering, and gratifying to occasionally be able to do something about it. Health care is like no other work in the world! My friend and fellow UCSF alumnus Mark Wandro blogs about his lengthy and impressive experience as an emergency nurse. Also fascinating is the Emergency Nurses Association web site. Good reading -- give them both a visit! |
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"The United States alone [among wealthy countries] treats health care as a commodity to be distributed according to the ability to pay rather than a social service to be distributed according to medical need." — JAMA (2003), 290, 798