So last night was cra-cra...It was totally insane from the second I got there. Bed 1 detoxing, bed 2, discharging, and before the disinfectant dried already had another patient. People lined up in the hallways, homeless frequent flier in an imaginary hallway bed (wheelchair, sitting over by the blanket warmer)....just noise and call bells, and phones ringing.
Nine hours into this Sh!t storm (it is a Friday night), local PD bring a young guy in in a wheel chair. This guy looks like he works out...really healthy looking, claims he can't walk and they stick him in a hallway bed. I go to lunch (not my assignment). Come back, they are trying to find a bed to move him too so he has privacy for a EKG (CHEST PAIN...short of breath...yeah, same song 2nd verse....all he wants is a ticket to Fort Worth which is HOME to...well where he lives homeless. He had been sent to a psych facility in the Valley, and because he met someone there and was getting along so well...some rocket scientist (ie: dumb ass) decided to send him "home" in the same ambulance...to a city he had never been before....cue some cutsy music...and family discovers an additional psycho-unstable person "living" with their family member and freak out and call the po-po....who obviously don't know what to do with him since (1) he hasn't broken a law (2) he isn't psychotic (2) he gives them an out...but suddenly not being able to walk (could this be a fear of the police psychosis...vs..."I know how to use the system"?)
Three back to back admissions and said "can't walk patient" is sucking up ER hours by the $$....and all we are really doing is feeding him and giving him his prescribed meds. Psych won't take him because he isn't unstable ....not hearing voices....not hallucenating...just hungry and "can't walk". Miraculously after about 7 days of this the Social Worker "found funding" for a bus ticket and he happily climbed the steps to the bus....suddenly cured of all ailments.....
Now I wonder why our taxes are so much?????????????? At least he was a legal citizen who got helped out of a bad situation.
