24 Hours in the ER: Health care's front lines 

One time my doctor admitted me to the ER for my mental health state and I honest to God felt so bad for wasting their time. I didn't even want to be admitted and every nurse and doctor looked at me like I was wasting their time, which I knew. I had no idea how crazy it really was for them until now

In Australia, the government pays for our healthcare, and we give it back by paying for advanced transport options, speeding fines and tollways. We're not rich, but we're alive and fed.

“Americans enjoy one of the highest levels of care in the world” And also have to pay for everything themselves

Born and raised in the U.S and I hear of all these other countries with free health care and I think that's great, so why not here, but money will always rule this country before anything else and that's sad...

I'm glad health care is free here in the UK because if it wasn't me and my family would probably be on the streets.

As a medical student dead set on specializing in emergency medicine, there are far too many reasons to finish a Ph.D. in America, then high tail it ASAP to another country after residency. What isn't covered in this video is the culture. There are countless times patients or their families will come in acting way out of conduct, treating the medical staff like they are fast food service employees. (Screaming, threatening violence, threatening lawsuits or filing a corporate complaint if they don't get A and B in 5 minutes.) There are even flashing neon signs at some ERs in larger cities advertising wait times. The ER administration are generally business people, and value "customer service" more than "professional care." It would be malpractice to throw out someone who was violent and ranting away if there was anything medically wrong with them at all, and ambulance chasing lawyers will be more than happy to obliage to them, stating their behavior was something medically wrong and it's our fault entirely. All in all, people can get away with acting like spoiled children in the ER. They can do things there they wouldn't be able to do in walmart, because it makes them feel entitled and important, even if they aren't paying a cent to be there. So this, along with how horrible and behind the health care system is compared to Australia, Japan, or other single-payer health care systems where everyone is insured, are the main reasons I'm not even going to live near my family and friends to endure this kind of treatment of both patients and staff. In the UK, patients can be removed if they act out of line and do not have a medical condition influencing the behavior. There are WAY less of these problems there. And in the USA, so many 'patients' are drug abusers looking for opiates, who will threaten all kinds of things if you don't fill out their chosen prescription. (Pill mill doctors.) It's ridiculous.

One thing I can't stand are doctors and nurses that treat patients like crap because they don't have insurance.

Every human being should have a right to health care. Dr.Ralph was right in what he said re gov spending time there.

I remember when I had a severe head fracture, blood etc. and the first thing they did once I entered the hospital was take me to an office IN A GURNEY to ask for my insurance information.

Thank God I live in Canada because I don’t have to worry about paying to visit the hospital those people should live in Canada so I don’t have to worry about those expenses anymore

This situation is devastating. And it is only getting worse. :(

The answer to this is to lower the cost of schooling so that the pay expectation for healthcare professionals will be lower, thus lowering the cost

So much to learn from this

This problem with uninsured pts. will continue to get worse with the end of the ACA

What the Government is doing to our Health Care is downright Horrifying not to mention Deadly.

Even with insurance you still have to wait hours..I only go if it's an emergency...but the people up front don't think it's an emergency and will make you wait..and wait...so then I just want to walk out.

It’s pretty disgusting that Americans are expected to pay a huge bill if they get sick! We moan about our NHS but actually it’s pretty damn amazing compared with the US system. At least we get pretty great care and it’s all covered with the small amount of our taxes. I got sick at the beginning of this year and was in a London hospital for nearly a week. I walk out at the end of it and don’t pay a dime and that’s how it should be. Medicine should be about patients and not how much money they earn. Many homeless people in the US cannot access healthcare because they have no money to pay for it. Disgraceful

WTF DUDE LOTS OF STUFF GOES ON IN THE US AT LEAST THEY ARE NEVER FLIPPING BORED

Al hamdullilah I live in Canada

I like Lisa Pixelys ideas

Seeing LOTS of *PREVENTABLE* conditions **tisk tisk**

youre far away lucky compare here in the philippines

I’m Native American and we have free health care on native reservations but we don’t have the BEST health care system.

This is so sad 😞

If that nurse thinks people sponge the system in the USA, come to the UK. People go to the Hospital for mild coughs, headaches, a paper cut and wonder why the NHS struggle. We have Doctors offices for that reason, only medical emergency's and people referred to the Hospital should be allowed in.

I know I was diagnosed with Epilepsy when I was 6 and now when I have a seizure at school or work or when I am going to the store the first thing that happens is people call 911 and I end up in the ER and I get so mad at my school and my work cause they know I have epilepsy and they are like well we have to call you might be dieing and then I end up with a bill that I have a hard time paying and when I am home and I have a seizure my dad and sisters and mom and stepdad and stepbrother and stepsister don't call 911 they just talk to me until I come out of it

4:52 look at the tattoo on his left arm

Nice

To say that Americans enjoy the best care in the world is not true. If you are rich, then you get awesome care. If you are poor or uninsured then you can get treated and go bankrupt.

One time I went to the ER for chest pain. I was approached and was required to write a check for $75 before I could get treatment.

stop picking your hair on your chin...!!

ITs sad because A LOT of these conditions can be treated without an emergency room visits. Diabetes, (most but not all) Heartattacks... I mean these are simply the result of 70% of American adults being overweight or obese. Saying that everyone deserves the best health care ever is not achievable. How is it fair for someone who gets a real education, works a full time job, but then their taxes are supposed to pay for someone with no education and no job? You deserve what you work for, thats how the system should work!!!

Lot of sick now adays especially kids

No such thing as free health care. Someone’s gotta pay for it end of day

Halo ha

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Trump should see this and look into it instead of doing other shit

Nop I live here, and the level of care is baaaad.

"Yeah, he was all grumpy and he chewed on ya, huh?" - Not really therapeutic to a 3/4 year old. But I laughed so hard...

I feel awful for that doctor who worries about the patients who are not insured. He shouldn't have to worry about this. He should be able to treat people without hat worry. This is why US healthcare is so dreadful. You need a single payer system - it'll also be a lot cheaper.

I think free health care should be available for everyone

In Belgium, at least every homeless person has right for medical care without the need of paying bills. It's a crime to refuse medical care.

I don't know why I feel like this would be a depressing hospital to be at.

My grandad had a pain in his chest that he thought was indigestion He took my cousins to school and played 18 holes of golf, he then felt strange so went to the hospital where they checked him over then rushed him to the er because that chest pain was a massive heart attack and he required a quadruple bypass surgery

This is why I'm glad I live in Canada. The US is fucked when it comes to health care. Having to pay for health is ridiculous.

In Canada, we have universal health care and that's the bare minimum. Wait times, not enough staff, tight funding, are just a few. We have one of the highest price rates for prescriptions, meaning we're paying hundreds out of pocket.

Seems like everyone gets a fizzy drink in the hospital. Even the guy complaining about his diabetes bills!!!!

Frequent flyers waste precious, valuable time of medical staff.

No one should ever have to choose between keeping the lights or receiving "world class care" I know this being a patient for my psychiatrics and phsyicalcal health , I have a history of e convulsive disorder ( epilepsy) and my high blood pressure , gi issues and heart murmur. IMHO even though I am a young republical but I strongly agree with the hard cold fact that the american health care system is a messy debuckle the need to be fixed and the fact is that there are factor l the biggest of which is the fact the many members of congress and senators are bedfellows bith big pharma and insurance industry insiders and don't want to mend the fence because of fear of the troth coming out.

I live in the UK and the government pays for health care so I'm very lucky I would not be able to pay if I lived in the united states

thank god here un brazil we have a Free health care System. I never pay my medicines, or appointments. ever10 for Free

It's alarming that the medical staff wouldn't believe their patients when they claim that their primary care physicians sent them to the ER. That's exactly how my daughter was diagnosed with a brain tumor; I took her to her pediatrician who then sent us directly to the ER to get a CAT of her brain based upon her symptoms.

I can watch all kinds of health care things without blinking an eye, but seeing that child brought in via Life Flight, intubated, was heart wrenching for me. My little brother died on a Life Flight. He arrived at the Children’s Hospital intubated, having been resuscitated several times. He was declared DOA, dead on arrival.

Glad i live In Australia for this reason. Free healthcare

As an Australian, I wonder if the president has ever looked at how our public works?

"Americans enjoy one of the highest levels of care in the world" unless of course, they are uninsured and poor.

In my country Mauritius, Health care is free and education too. It is being fund by taxes, fines and etc we pay...

Since childhood I have had problems with my heart. Now due to my age I have more problems that require constant treatment and medication. Fortunately in the UK we have our NHS. Today I had an MRI scan that would have emptied my pockets if not the the NHS. We are so lucky here. Visit the ER or the GP and get world class treatment. If the UK can have an NHS then why can't other countries like the USA do the same?

I am so glad I am Canadian.. we get it all for free

The guy at 4:50 has a swastika tattoo

This is why I love the Canadian Health Care System..

I'm staying up late every night watching and researching about er nursing because that's what I want to do when I grow up and I don't learn any of this stuff at school so..

What pissed me off is they say get a primary doctor,yet you call a primary doctor,they say I'm not excepting new patiants! Now what? Jerks!

im in the first phase of becoming a ER Doctor. Really hope this is sorted out. I just want to help people.

An ER visit where i live is seriously $250. An ambulance ride varies, but it can sometimes be over $100

look wizards of waverly place at 8:19

Thank God I live in the UK regarding this. NHS is a beautiful thing.

Patient: "If you aren't to me in 20mins I'm going to check myself out." Me: "Woman, if you feel your issue is minor enough that you could go home and marinate, then you shouldn't be here to begin with. Also, chronic abdominal pain is best treated by a GP and costs significantly less."

I can’t believe how much people pay for health care that’s disgusting it’s horrific uk here our health care is not the best at all whatsoever but we don’t pay all our wages to keep us alive and healthy I’d move country definitely I would I could not afford that game

Thanks God I'm living in Malaysia 🇲🇾

One emergency visit will break you...

I live in Australia and I really feel for these people. I had a really bad chest infection and due to coughing a did some damage to my intercostal muscles so i went to the ER. I am not insured and I waited for maybe an hour. Doesn't cost a thing! We have a great healthcare system here. the only thing you really need it for is dental and ambulance. A lot of doctors here also do bulk billing which is another good thing.

I can absolutely relate to both sides of this issue. I was on Medicaid for 7 years. The primary care doctors are so bad that you're only option is to go to the ER when you're sick. I must have went about 15 times in that period. Something that could be as benign as acid reflux turns into these back and forth visits to the ER because they just rule out life threatening situations, but won't tell you to just take Prilosec. This ends up costing the government 10x more money when they could just have decent doctors in the primary care setting, so patients don't have to run to the ER every time they have a minor complaint. At the same time, people shouldn't go to the ER for a simple cold

Why are people from other countries bragging about their free healthcare? Stop bragging and boasting. It is a sin.

I don't go to the Accident & Emergency Unit unless push comes to shove

That lady with the abdomen pain is drug seeking...

I'm glad I don't live in America

I'll call bullish!t on this one. I work in a Level 1 trauma center and you were not taken bleeding on a gurney into an office so they could get your insurance info. Try again.

9/9/2009

I walked out of the ER with a rapidly growing cancerous brain tumor TWICE. I paid for insurance and was working two jobs and going to college. They seen I was from the city, they seen my skin color, my age (21 at the time) and seen how many patients they had and assumed I was getting headaches from pregnancy, simply bc I refused to get a pregnancy test. I had been celibate for 6 years. If I didn't go back and refuse to leave I would of died of hydrocephalus!!!! -3 years cancer free now!! How many people have to almost and actually die for them to change healthcare?? They've got to scrap the whole thing and have people who work and do actual labor in hospitals and the tax payers decide this.

and i thought that it was just here in my country, india.. but i guess the whole health care system everywhere is broken!

Health Care by emergency room sucks and there are many of us with chronic conditions who do it because doctors want money up front.

*That poor lady with the abdominal pain the lady continued to have is probably IBS or possibly ulcers. It would be cheaper for the ER doctor to prescribe her Bentyl with a ton of refills than to have her keep coming back to the ER and definitely some pain medicine. Obviously if she keeps coming back several times a month, she’s got something seriously wrong and she shouldn’t be neglected*

Fortunately we now have a system where people can obtain comprehensive insurance without going broke.

I guess that codes arejust as ridiculous as ever!

America shouls do the same as in Holland.

I don't pay for Rx's, Dr's visits,Surgery/hospital stays,Ambulance,I'm blessed I live in Canada

yes everybody wants free..here in europe we must pay our insurance with job or jobless...

Thank god we have free healthcare here, government also pays if you want to get your treatment abroad. الحمدالله

Funny to think that the little kids in this are now in high school and or college now/

I am grateful and blessed that I have private medical insurance should I ever find myself needing medical care. But, I am doubly blessed that I live in Australia and have Medicare which covers most of my medical bills.

I heard one nurse say that smokers should have to pay higher health care premiums but I never heard her mention obese people.

That's what I dislike so much im living in Tx i have insurance but people come in to the ER for a little cough or there big toe hurts really

In the UK it's all free

I don't like it when my pulmonologist asks me to go to the ER for bronchitis, I've had bronchitis so much because I have asthma I'm getting to the point of it's bronchitis again.

Our health care system is pitiful. The ones that get treated are wealthy. I have worked with children on assistance and some have good care but there are a few have not and are pushed out as soon as they can.

I've been working in health care a long time. Life is complicated and there are no easy answers to fix this problem. If you are watching this and believe you have a simple solution that will fix it, which ever the side of the isle you're on politically, I can assure you it won't work. So don't be so smug and think you know everything.

I wish we could all just be taught how to take care of ourselves and do what doctors do, if we all knew the right ways to care we could just take care of our own families and not be so depended on just doctors and the er wouldnt get over crowded the er would be for actual emergency like being shot, stabbed or needing an operation.

Iam from SOUTH AFRICA working in one of the bigges hospital group and must say i take my had of for the front line worker. Specially my hospital emergency dept. The Dr's