[HN Gopher] Eerie emptiness of ERs worries doctors: where are th...
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       Eerie emptiness of ERs worries doctors: where are the heart attacks
       and strokes?
        
       Author : harambaebae69
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2020-05-06 22:10 UTC (49 minutes ago)
        
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       | aluminussoma wrote:
       | There is also another opinion: that many people go to the ER who
       | don't really need to go there.
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       | I had to visit the ER recently. I did not want to go but my
       | doctor insisted. A family member who is also a doctor also
       | insisted I go.
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       | The ER was eerily empty. The ER doctor saw me immediately. There
       | were only a couple of other patients that I could see. This
       | contrasts to prior experiences in the ER where there is a long
       | wait as I get triaged, with lots of people waiting to be seen.
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       | Fortunately my situation was nothing serious. When I returned
       | home and told my relative, he said his hospital's emergency
       | department was also very light. In his opinion, there were a lot
       | of people going to the ER who didn't need to go in the first
       | place.
        
         | sushid wrote:
         | The article addresses this. They expect fewer trauma patients
         | as there are fewer people on the road, etc. but they expect the
         | number of stroke, heart attack, etc. patients to remain
         | constant, which hasn't been the case.
        
       | xenonite wrote:
       | Of course, people hesitate to go to the doctor. But I see a
       | second factor: Maybe it's because of a slowing down in many
       | regards. Hence, less stress, and less heart attacks?
        
       | guscost wrote:
       | Dying at home, many of them. Excess mortality is way up, and it's
       | not all COVID-19.
        
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