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Youngest son is in the hospital recovering from an operation he had Thursday at a hospital in the Texas Medical Center Texas Medical Center - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The experience has been good, and we've moved through the system smoothly with almost no hiccups. However, there were some delays at first; the OR was a little backed up, and then we were in the recovery room for hours while they waited for a room to be ready. The surgeon told me the hospital was completely full, which was unusual for this time of year. He said winter was usually the busy time. The recovery nurse was commenting on how busy they were that night. It seemed busy, with close to 50 patients rotating through recovery while we were there for about 5-6 hours.
I've had a few brief conversations with staff members from other hospitals and I've asked how busy they were and they mostly agreed that they were swamped. The only exception was a team of surgical residents I was standing in line with last night at McDonald's. Apparently their schedule was messed up because of a continual reshuffling of operations due to changing priorities brought on by a massive influx of new cases. The difference was that they said that Summer was their busy time and it wouldn't slow down until September. They seemed a little young and full of themselves (look at us - we're busy busy busy slicing people open), so I'm not sure about their evaluation. Especially compared with everyone else saying that the volume is unusual.
I caught a brief news story that said hospitalization was up across the country as people who still have jobs, and health insurance, are trying to take care of health issues while they still have the insurance.
Rich, anybody else in the healthcare biz, are you seeing a surge in demand?
The experience has been good, and we've moved through the system smoothly with almost no hiccups. However, there were some delays at first; the OR was a little backed up, and then we were in the recovery room for hours while they waited for a room to be ready. The surgeon told me the hospital was completely full, which was unusual for this time of year. He said winter was usually the busy time. The recovery nurse was commenting on how busy they were that night. It seemed busy, with close to 50 patients rotating through recovery while we were there for about 5-6 hours.
I've had a few brief conversations with staff members from other hospitals and I've asked how busy they were and they mostly agreed that they were swamped. The only exception was a team of surgical residents I was standing in line with last night at McDonald's. Apparently their schedule was messed up because of a continual reshuffling of operations due to changing priorities brought on by a massive influx of new cases. The difference was that they said that Summer was their busy time and it wouldn't slow down until September. They seemed a little young and full of themselves (look at us - we're busy busy busy slicing people open), so I'm not sure about their evaluation. Especially compared with everyone else saying that the volume is unusual.
I caught a brief news story that said hospitalization was up across the country as people who still have jobs, and health insurance, are trying to take care of health issues while they still have the insurance.
Rich, anybody else in the healthcare biz, are you seeing a surge in demand?