SOCI 4610 Discussion #4: Waiting Room Documentary Questions

Instructions:
Watch the Waiting Room Documentary

Address ONE of the following:

• 1) One of the doctors describes a familiar patient: So, this is our gentleman that came in, found down, apparently, he doesn’t take his medicines that would help him stay out of the hospital. Um, he comes in, I mean I’m just looking back; he’s come in a dozen times this year. August, July, June, June, May, May, May, March, March, February, February, February, February, February. Patients leave the ER with medication, but when it runs out and they can’t afford more, they return.
  • How does everyone in the community pay for this cycle? What else would you do to create a more efficient, effective system?
• 2) A female patient anticipates an all-day wait: I’m just sayin’. You have a long wait. You have to bring your blanket, your dinner, your lunch and all that. A man with a bullet in his leg becomes increasingly frustrated because even with pain, nausea, and increasing numbness he can’t be seen for hours because there are no beds available. Dr. White provides one explanation: Not everyone has a place to go and there are often times where I don’t want to send a patient out into the cold with bad lung problems and no access to get medicines that night. I can’t just send them to the street. Uh, sothere’s no movement on that bed and nobody in the waiting room can use that bed until that patient has a place to go. If I was a patient in the waiting room, knowing that there was somebody who was completely stable and didn’t need to be admitted but there’s nowhere else to go and I was stuck waiting for that bed, uh I think I would be pretty darn frustrated.
  • What else causes long waits? What is the cost of those long waits? Who pays that cost? What would need to happen, both in and outside of the hospital to reduce wait time?
• 3) CNA Johnson escorts an elderly, somewhat disoriented patient to the bus stop, and viewers are left to wonder whether or not the woman gets on the bus and makes it home safely. In another part of the hospital, social worker Ricka White-Soso struggles to find someone to take a chronic substance abuser so they can release him and free up a bed.
  • In your view, what should the hospital do if she can’t find anyone? What should happen to patients who are finished with treatment but who don’t have any place to go, or patients who don’t need hospital treatment but need some supervision and don’t have anyone to provide that supervision?

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