Have you ever passed out in a socialist country?

[Nixie]

Logically I can see your point. I think a woman having a baby is only staying in the hospital like 2 days now, down from like a week in the hospital in past times. Many procedures are being done with minimal recovery time in the hospital. The healthcare system is broken in many ways. People are using ER's more because they lack access to primary care physicans/service. So something that should be treatable with minimum medical care is ignored until it becomes an emergency situation. The shift in the demograhics to a relatively large population of over 60 (baby boomers) is also stressing the medical community. Couple that with a huge decline in medical professionals becoming general practictioners and you have a system that is taxed to the limit. That is saying that a given medical facility is run efficently to begin with--which most probably aren't.

 

[CindyLou]

If I had to stay in the hospital a week after I had my daughter I would have gone insane.

 

[894tt3h9]

I've never passed out from drinking, but I have had a friend who was admitted to the ER with alcohol poisoning. They pumped her stomach until she vomited everything out and then packed her up and sent her home. I'm sure she probably felt like all kinds of shit, but there's no point in staying in the hospital when you're able to get home- regardless of however far home is. That's not the hospital's responsibility.

I don't think they care whether or not you feel like shit. You can always just take my roommate's approach and vomit on public transit if you're not feeling well. Someone will clean it up.

 

[Soulful]

Yeah that's pretty much it.
I guess I was asking for too much, lol.

It was weird, though. If I feel really bad (hung over, still drunk, far from home) and they have room for me (which they totally did), then why not let me stay in a different part of the hospital. There's also what Carrie addressed, that I was way more vulnerable at this time. And Im surprised that they didnt do some kind of psychological evaluation of me. Maybe I was trying to kill myself? I got the bare minimum and was asked to leave shortly upon them finding out about my not-so-great insurance.

I know my cousin had a better experience than me, but then she lives in socialist Sweden. They evaluated the heck out of her.

Yeah, evaluations would have been a good idea!
It sounds like it really sucked at the time.