jwells
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If the University of Tennessee can't do it with 25,000 students, most of which do not utilize the system, how can we expect our government to do it with 300,000,000+?
From an e-mail today from the university about H1N1:
"Some students are coming to the Student Health Service with no symptoms or extremely mild symptoms. This is causing overloading of the Student Health Service and delays timely care for those who have more urgent medical needs. If you think you have the flu, you should not need medical care unless you experience:..."
Imagine if the "delay in timely care" is for, oh, I don't know...a heart attack. Or car crash. Once we overload the medical system, I imagine we'll hear about deaths, or at best complications, from extended wait-times.
From an e-mail today from the university about H1N1:
"Some students are coming to the Student Health Service with no symptoms or extremely mild symptoms. This is causing overloading of the Student Health Service and delays timely care for those who have more urgent medical needs. If you think you have the flu, you should not need medical care unless you experience:..."
Imagine if the "delay in timely care" is for, oh, I don't know...a heart attack. Or car crash. Once we overload the medical system, I imagine we'll hear about deaths, or at best complications, from extended wait-times.
