re: 250K Americans die per year from ER misdiagnosis.

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You’re comparing socialized healthcare systems to ours.

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It is even worse than that. 2 most egregious things:

The 250K preventable death estimation is extrapolated from a single study performed in 2004, with data from a sample of 503 patients drawn from the high acuity area of an Emergency Dept in an academic center in Canada, in which a single patient died. If they were trying to be honest with themselves, they would've reconsidered throwing this "estimate" out there when their own reported 95% confidence interval on this was and absurdly large 6,250 to 1,375,000 preventable deaths per year.

The 5.7% estimated overall diagnostic error rate is based on a weighted average of 2 studies performed in countries (Spain and Switzerland) that did not even have Emergency Medicine Residencies at the time of the studies (Switzerland still doesn't).

This is clickbait trash.

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They arent supposed to be able to read one

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Well, he sure pulled a diagnosis out of his arse that wasn't remotely accurate.

About a week or two before I was put in the hospital for my open-Herat surgery my wife took me to the ER one night because I was struggling to breath and my ankles had swollen to the point they looked ready to pop. I was by then about three months into fighting what my personal Dr had misdiagnosed as pneumonia. The ER Dr took x-rays and told me and my wife the x-ray confirmed pneumonia and “my heart looked a bit enlarged so I should go see a cardiologist after I’m over the pneumonia.” My wife begged her to admit me to the hospital and do more tests. She was adamant there was something beside pneumonia wrong with me. The ER Dr. told her “I have no medical reason to admit him.”

I would find out days later I never had pneumonia and was in fact in the final stage of congestive heart failure.

Sounds like you did not need to be emergently admitted and after meeting you just one time, did what your primary didn’t do and sent you to the right specialist.

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I almost died because of a misdiagnosis by an ER triage nurse at Our Lady of the Lake Hospital. Thankfully, the ER doctor that finally examined me hours later correctly diagnosed my life threatening condition. It was a close call, but I survived after emergency surgery and more than a week in the hospital. I won't go to the the ER at OLOL ever again.

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You’re not going back to the hospital that saved your life because your wait time was a little longer than it should have been?

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This is clickbait trash.

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This has never stopped the OT, or any agenda-driven critics, from applying sweeping generalizations to our entire system.

But I was told the United States has, far and away, the best healthcare in the world, and the other countries with universal healthcare were cesspools.

From my time with my father in the hospital recently, I can assure you that you are your only advocate. Most of those people have no clue what's going on, nor do they care.

Had to bring my 2 year old son to the ER recently for severe allergic reaction to fire ants and it was like footage you see of hospitals in war zones.

They unloaded us in this super cramped hall way where ambulances stop because there was no where to sit and no rooms. Kid is swollen up like an oompa loompa meanwhile there are dying old people strapped to gurneys and overdosed drug addicts vomiting and fighting the police and hospital staff.

Took hours to get into a room. This was at 10am on a Wednesday. I can't imagine what those places are like after hours.

God bless everyone who has to work in these hellscapes.


From now on its private urgent care where no medicaid is accepted, I don't even care how much money it costs.