I had a run to the ER this week for forehead stitches for my little boy. I don’t know why I keep the edges of my doors so sharp but… speed was also a factor in the incident…(both the boy and the door were in motion!) Ouch!
Our bodies are designed to self regulate and be healthy. Unfortunately, accidents happen. And when they do, I am glad for sterile fields, clean gauze pads, and blood pressure cuffs. Any news website, TV media or print periodical report daily accidents and 911 calls because something happened to someone. Just because it may be well and truly no one’s fault, there are times when allopathic medicine experts must rush in to save life or limb.
Sorry to say, if I asked around, I could get at least one such emergency story from any individual I know, and probably most folks could relate many more than one. Do you know anyone who has used a helicopter ambulance? In my opinion, this is the best of modern medicine and untold lives have been saved since Emergency Rooms have evolved into amazingly-equipped trauma centers. With kudos to my hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, the first specialized trauma care center in the world was opened at the University of Louisville Hospital in 1911. (source Wikipedia) Now I live less than 3 miles away from a pediatric emergency room — used by families all around our commonwealth.
The United States doesn’t have the only high-tech emergency care system; Israel has a super evolved action plan, equipment and trained medical staff. ZAKA, the Israeli based first-response service, was called here to the States in September 2001, as well as to the deadly terrorist bombing of a hotel in Mombasa, Kenya; and participated in the recovery of the remains of the ill-fated Columbia space shuttle. (source: Israel21C.org)
The problems with emergency room care, with all due respect to the brave (and tired) souls who work their level best –and burn out– given the resources at hand, were sadly obvious when I began to research the topic online.
Search engines and news stories results showed many more hits of complaints due to problems rather than success stories. Largely the problems were because people are using emergency rooms (allopathic based medicine) for reasons outside the scope of what ERs are intended to handle.