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Man arrested after 'dressing as Grim Reaper' at hospital and staring at patients (www.mirror.co.uk)
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[–] 4 points 3 months ago* (8 children)

While your sentiment is for sure in the right place, the inverse is the case right now; I don't know of a region that isn't floating at crisis levels for bed avaliablity (right now US hospitals are roughly 89% full, well over the predicted threshold for "shit starts collapsing" at 85%). It's really, really bad out there.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    My hospital hovers around 100% year round. We were at 130% recently, that was bad. Very bad.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago*

    Hey it could be worse, you could be at one of the psych hospitals! Poor fuckers are running at 400%+ capacity on a good day. They're so overtaxed they're turfing people from forensic beds, and anyone that isnt a critical emergent case is never getting admitted. It's so much fun!

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    130%??? Are we talking like the stereotypical image of a collapsing country with patients laying in gurneys in the hallway?

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Yes. This is in a major city in Colorado, we're not a small hospital nor are we in a rural place. There's no excuse

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