Ugh

As I write this, I have been sitting in an emergency department with a family member for almost 14 hours, suffering from up charges for a simple procedure in the morning.

I can't tell you how broken the system is because the disrepair is beyond repair. The rooms in the hospital are filled up and patients line the walls on gurneys with the beep beep sound of EKG alarms blaring. Every 10 minutes or so some employee comes over to the cabinet across the hall from our gurney and looks for equipment that is not there. Wasted time and effort. Frustration beyond belief. 

Nobody looks happy.

It's no wonder people get sicker when they come to the hospital. The staff is overworked. The equipment is absent. The system is overwhelmed, broken and without hope as populations grow and resources become more scarce in relation to the strain of perceived community needs. 

We are screwed!

But in a pure irony of need, a new building is being built on the property to accommodate the growing need for sick care. A building that will likely be filled with patients, not enough staff searching for inadequate equipment.