The hospital is one-way transparent to the patient. Hospitals are afraid of difficulties and have many reasons to shirk their patients. I’ve heard the excuse of “the patient is too fat, our hospital bed is narrow, and the bed in the hospital on West Incineration Road is wide, you can transfer it”.
The main reason why the hospital shies away from the patients in the closed control area is that the long-standing philosophy of medical care is low cost and low redundancy.
Due to the rapid social progress, large hospitals are filled with old buildings and new ones. The hospital lacks a long-term overall plan, and there are many unreasonable personnel threads, which can easily lead to cross-infection.
Because the resources are too few, the hospital’s load is heavy. Most of the wards are large rooms with multiple people, and it is difficult to provide single rooms for special patients.
Some inspection equipment and treatment equipment require “one person, one disinfection” if they receive special patients, which will reduce the operation efficiency of the hospital and increase the cost of the hospital.
There is a shortage of manpower in medical units. In recent years, medical progress has made the operation of hospitals more and more efficient, but the manpower is fixed, and a single medical staff receives more and more patients.
Taking inpatients as an example, the main treatments and operations take place in the first half of the hospitalization. Examinations, tests, formulating treatment plans, performing operations, etc., and then sorting out medical records before discharge.
Thirty years ago, the average length of stay in a large hospital was twenty days, but now it is seven or eight days. If a restaurant’s “table turnover rate” triples, but the number of waiters remains the same, what will be the effect?
To treat a special patient, the nurses were fully armed, and because of the difficult conditions, they changed shifts every four hours. To treat such a patient, the hospital will have to send many more staff.
The hospital’s software and hardware conditions are insufficient, and the admission and treatment of special patients will not only increase the economic cost, but also difficult to avoid nosocomial infection.
Post time: Aug-31-2022