Drained

I just spent 3 hours trying to transfer my patient to an acute hospital. I'm super tired and pissed. When an ER doc tells me that the reason he's not accepting the patient is due to the high probability of mortality and that doesn't look good, it makes my blood pressure go through the roof. Last time I checked, that is not a justifiable reason for not accepting a patient. There's a reason why I'm transferring patient to acute, the patient is unstable and may become exactly that, a mortality rate, and I definitely don't want that to happen. Kainis talaga. Of course when I tried to get the assistant chief of staff involved the ER docs reasoning became more reasonable. He said that due to the fact that they do not have a neurosurgeon to evaluate the patient they cannot accept the patient. It's pure baloney but it's a bit more acceptable, however, the patient does not need a neurosurgeon, he just needs to be stabilized damn it.

I finally found a hospital who is willing to take him in. I'm happy now.