Emergency Visits On The Rise

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more convenient for them, they rather not put up in the waiting room for hours, and for the homeless patients, the know that their chances of getting a real bed is higher if they come in the emergency room. Eighty-nine percent of all emergency patient thought they need to be seen immediately, but less than forty three percent of these patients requires care within twenty four hours. The other fifty five percent was just a false alarm, an example of this is a sixty years old man has chest pain thinking that it could be related to a heart attack, he goes to the emergency room and found out that it was just indigestion.
Not all emergency visits are false alarm, really did not required a trip to the emergency room when an obvious symptom occurs and could have been prevented, the majority of all the patients that falls into this category has slight symptoms of a disease or condition. Instead of a trip to the doctor’s office or a trip to a walk-in clinic to get it treated right away, ...

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