Not the person you’ve been talking to, but this part:
you get in, wait for maybe 30 minutes, get treated and leave
just seems crazy to me. I think my shortest ever hospital trip was around 4 hours, the average is more like 7-8 hours. I’ve seen as high as 22 hours before though. I’ve never seen the show but I’ve heard it’s one of the most accurate depictions of typical hospital work on tv.
As I said, depends on the place and date. I most likely was fairly lucky. Most of the times I was using private hospitals. Private insurance is like 50 euros a month. I don’t remember spending more than couple hours in ER including X-ray. There’s a public hospital 15 minutes drive from me and I went there once in the middle of the night and it was pretty much empty. Got attended in ~30 minutes. I would definitely remember 7h wait.
I’ve seen comments from nurses saying that The Pit completely ignores the job they are doing. My problem was that they were focusing on doctors’ personal issues too much. I’m sure technically it was very realistic but the amount of personal drama vs actual medical work felt very unrealistic to me. But it’s just a show, I know.
Not the person you’ve been talking to, but this part:
just seems crazy to me. I think my shortest ever hospital trip was around 4 hours, the average is more like 7-8 hours. I’ve seen as high as 22 hours before though. I’ve never seen the show but I’ve heard it’s one of the most accurate depictions of typical hospital work on tv.
As I said, depends on the place and date. I most likely was fairly lucky. Most of the times I was using private hospitals. Private insurance is like 50 euros a month. I don’t remember spending more than couple hours in ER including X-ray. There’s a public hospital 15 minutes drive from me and I went there once in the middle of the night and it was pretty much empty. Got attended in ~30 minutes. I would definitely remember 7h wait.
I’ve seen comments from nurses saying that The Pit completely ignores the job they are doing. My problem was that they were focusing on doctors’ personal issues too much. I’m sure technically it was very realistic but the amount of personal drama vs actual medical work felt very unrealistic to me. But it’s just a show, I know.