Bishop Bo’s netizen ＂Traveling to the emergency room for a low price overnight＂ Emergency medical staff： After the inspection, they will be urged to leave.
Bath center, 24-hour ATM bank, underground parking, Internet cafe, KTV… … In recent years, some tourists choose these cheap and convenient places to spend the night in order to save money when traveling abroad. Recently, however, Red Star journalists found that some netizens shared their "coup" of saving money by staying overnight on a social platform, and even chose the overnight place in the emergency department of the hospital. They also said that big hospitals such as the top three hospitals are five-star hotels with intimate service and comfortable recliners.
In this regard, some medical staff working in the emergency department told the Red Star journalist that in the past work, people who did come to see a doctor by pretending to be sick generally did not deliberately expose them, and they would be treated according to normal diagnosis and treatment. The inspection should be advised to go back to rest and persuade them to leave. It is considered to be very unqualified for this kind of behavior that takes up the queue for medical treatment and medical resources. "If there are many such behaviors, the hospital will issue relevant regulations in the future, which will add trouble to those who really come to see a doctor."
▲ Screenshot of the post of saving money by going to the emergency department of the hospital for the night.
Bloggers send "coup" to save money by traveling;
"You can pretend to be sick and go to the hospital for emergency treatment for the night."
Netizens criticized "guiding others to occupy medical resources"
Recently, a blogger posted on a social platform that if you can’t book a room for travel, you can register to stay in the emergency room of the hospital. According to the screenshot of the net transmission, the blogger created his own "small coup" to save money for overnight travel, and emphasized that big hospitals such as the top three hospitals are five-star hotels with intimate service and comfortable recliners.
The blogger also described in detail a series of procedures for registering and seeing a doctor in his post: registering at the emergency window of the hospital after 10 pm, taking blood pressure and temperature at the triage desk, washing after "confirming that he is not sick", lying that he coughed and was out of breath when seeing a doctor, and asking the doctor to prescribe oxygen instead of medicine, and staying in the hospital for the night at the price of 3 yuan per hour. The time of oxygen inhalation can be determined according to his sleep habits. "A total of 30 yuan can spend the night on the hospital lounge chair, and the nurse will help look after the luggage."
On October 9, when Red Star journalists searched the above-mentioned bloggers’ accounts on the platform, they found that they could not find the relevant accounts. However, by searching keywords on the platform, the reporter found that other bloggers still posted similar posts. According to a blogger, his company organized a very remote (local) physical examination, and decided to stay in the hospital because he couldn’t go back that day. At that time, the doctor immediately opened a hospital for him, or a single room.
▲ Another netizen shared the post "Where can I spend the night without staying in a hotel?"
The blogger also said in his post that the hospital fee is basically about one day in 60 yuan, but only when the beds are free, and a sick note can be issued. Later, when the blogger went to Hangzhou to play, he had a physical examination in a local hospital because he couldn’t find accommodation. "I was given an accommodation. I was called up at 6: 30 the next day and took a color ultrasound. I let me go. I spent 220 yuan before and after. The accommodation price in Hangzhou was not lower than that in 600 yuan that day."
Since the post of "saving money by spending the night in the hospital emergency room" was exposed, it immediately triggered a hot discussion among netizens. Many netizens left a message in the comment area, "This is guiding others to occupy medical resources, which will seriously interfere with the normal order of hospitals and the work of medical staff"; "Emergency overnight not only wastes medical resources, but also affects patients who really need emergency services. Can you sit still in the rest area here? " Some people also said, "Not to mention the need for doctors to judge the condition, all kinds of patients will be received all night, as well as the sounds of various instruments, all kinds of painful screams, and the lights will shine like daylight, so you won’t go even if you are asked to go" … …
▲ Reply from the platform involved
On October 10th, the Red Star journalist contacted the customer service (professional assistant) of the platform involved. The other party said that in this case, you can click the reporting option on the platform, and provide the relevant materials of the whistleblower according to the corresponding prompts on the page, and the corresponding Commissioner will follow up the verification. "The platform will take one or more of the following measures based on the facts independently identified by it, such as: limiting the scope of display, banning accounts, banning accounts, and pursuing legal responsibilities according to law."
Emergency medical staff:
Encountered pretending to be sick to see a doctor.
But it is almost impossible to achieve the goal of staying overnight at a low price.
"Emergency departments at home and abroad are roughly divided into five major areas, including pre-hospital emergency triage area, hospitalization observation area, rescue area, emergency inpatient ward (including general ward and emergency intensive care unit) and infusion area." Xiao Wei, a medical staff member in the emergency department of a third-class first-class hospital in Guangzhou, told Red Star that the day shift and night shift in the domestic emergency department are similar. The day shift is the normal administrative time, around 8: 00 -18: 00, and the rest of the time is night shift. "After the outpatient clinic is closed, the emergency department becomes busy, usually at noon and evening, as well as on the eve of holidays and during holidays."
Regarding the bed problem in the emergency department, Xiao Wei said that there will be beds in the rescue area and the observation area, but the number is not very crowded, and they all need to go through the formalities. "The emergency inpatient ward, like the inpatient department, needs hospitalization procedures to live. There are 5 beds in our infusion area, which are used by patients who need infusion. After transfusion, they must get up and lie down for patients who need it later. People who don’t need infusion are not allowed to lie down. " In addition, Wei also said that the general process of treating patients in the emergency department is: when patients arrive in the emergency department, there is a triage desk, and the nurses at the triage desk will evaluate the patient’s condition, roughly grade the condition by asking questions, measuring heart rate and blood pressure, and queue up for treatment according to the grading system.
"Patients who pretend to be sick have also encountered some. The triage nurse generally does not refuse to consult, and the registration will be hanged. However, if it is recognized that he is pretending, he will be told that he must queue up according to the order of diagnosis and treatment and cannot jump the queue. After it’s his turn to see a doctor, the doctor will judge his condition. It’s really fake, and he won’t open an oxygen inhalation or a bed for you to lie down for one night. " Wei said, because doctors also know that he is responsible for the patients in every bed he arranges, he also needs to make records and shift the next doctor, and so does the nurse. "It is easier for people who pretend to be sick to see it. Ask more questions, do some relevant physical examinations, open tests for him, and he will refuse to check. However, (medical staff) generally will not deliberately expose the illness, so they will still be treated according to normal diagnosis and treatment. The inspection should be advised to go back to rest and persuade them to leave. Even if there is a free bed, it is impossible to give him a night. "
In addition, regarding the aforementioned problems of being drunk and being hospitalized for physical examination, Xiao Wei admits that the control of being hospitalized in the emergency department is stricter than that in the general outpatient department, so the situation of being hospitalized in the emergency department through being drunk or being hospitalized for physical examination hardly exists in the emergency department. "Unless the condition of drunkenness is very critical, it will definitely be hospitalized for treatment. “
"This online ‘ Planting grass ’ I was a little shocked by the situation. It is not excluded that some people have done this and succeeded, but this situation generally does not appear in busy public hospitals. However, many hospitals are expanding now, and the new campus of some hospitals is indeed well decorated and equipped, and it is not excluded to open beds to live in order to generate income; Moreover, some young doctors are inexperienced. If people who come to see a doctor strongly demand to stay overnight even if they have not detected any problems, there are also empty beds. For safety reasons, doctors may think that he may have mental illness and let him stay for one night. " Wei told reporters that they had had patients with mental and sleep problems before, and only asked for oxygen and overnight stay, but the patient did have mental problems. "In short, the hospital emergency department generally does not refuse to consult, but it must abide by the order of diagnosis and treatment, because emergency patients will definitely give him priority in cutting in line. Moreover, sometimes in an emergency, such as a new patient who needs to be rescued, if there is a lack of beds, the emergency department does not rule out letting patients with mild illness give up their beds, take wheelchairs or seats first, and wait until the beds are turned around before returning them to patients with mild illness. "
"Patients with colds and fever usually need to leave after the fluid is lost, and they are not allowed to stay in the emergency room. If medical staff find that someone is pretending to see a doctor, they will continue to urge them to leave. " The medical staff in the emergency department of a second-class hospital in China also told reporters that in the past, there were cases in which patients broke into the emergency room for the night by themselves in the middle of the night, and the medical staff would drive away the people who occupied the beds during the morning rounds. "Under normal circumstances, all patients who saw a doctor in the emergency department, as long as they did not apply for hospitalization, would ask the patients to leave after the treatment, and would not be allowed to stay overnight. It is almost impossible for people without symptoms to want a bed in the emergency department through the normal medical treatment process to achieve the purpose of staying overnight at a low price in the hospital. "
The medical staff also said that doctors will diagnose the specific symptoms of patients and will not blindly meet the requirements of patients. I just want to take oxygen when I cough, so don’t prescribe medicine ’ In fact, not everyone is suitable for oxygen inhalation when coughing. Even if oxygen inhalation is allowed, it is only allowed for twenty or thirty minutes. After simple treatment, the patient needs to leave, and it is impossible to stay overnight. "
Red Star Journalist Luo Mengjie Intern Wang Zixuan