[PGR88]

A friend is an emergency room nurse at a large county hospital. She says traffic is down 50%. I found that strange - how can unplanned “emergencies” like heart attacks, home accidents, etc… be down? She said many emergency room visits are not for emergencies.

[buckalfa]

"A friend is an emergency room nurse at a large county hospital. She says traffic is down 50%. I found that strange - how can unplanned “emergencies” like heart attacks, home accidents, etc… be down? She said many emergency room visits are not for emergencies."

The ugly truth is that likely 70% of any hospital's business does not center on truly urgent or life saving services. The realities of the new normal business environment are going to be painful to the working masses.My daughter is a hospital based NP. She is still working but sees the handwriting on the wall.

[Bernard]

I found that strange - how can unplanned “emergencies” like heart attacks, home accidents, etc… be down?

I felt the same way when a family friend paramedic told me that about 10% of all calls to the Fire Department are for fires. The other 90% are medical in nature.

[Zathras]

I have a friend in Portland who really needs someone to give her a checkup.
Something seems wrong.

She is rightly scared if she went in, she would be sicker coming out.
Hopefully things are better now.