ED waiting room patients offered $10 to leave
Posted by GruntDoc on 18th January 2007
via Kevin, MD, who must have the AP newswire in his living room…
Woman files complaint that doctor offered patients $10 to go home
Frank Dobrovnik
Local News - Wednesday, January 17, 2007 Updated @ 7:27:58 AMAn Echo Bay woman plans to file a complaint with Sault Area Hospital that an emergency room doctor was offering patients $10 to go home.
Diane Edwards had been waiting eight hours to get a prescription refilled when a physician told the “room full of people he’d pay them $10″ each if they left, she told CBC Radio in Sudbury this week.
“I didn’t appreciate it, being there for that long,” said Edwards, who does not have a family doctor.…
I don’t know of a working emergency physician who hasn’t at least thought it, and I occasionally joke about it, but someone has an impulse control problem, at best.
Oh, and the ED isn’t a place to go to get your prescription refilled. Sorry.
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