Each week, Dr. Megan Ranney fields a handful of calls from family and friends who are looking for emergency care, but finding only frustration and delays. In today’s health care system, those complaints have grown increasingly common, according to Ranney, a practicing emergency room physician and academic dean at the Brown University School of Public Health. Righting the shipIf current trends persist, Ranney predicted that emergency room wait times will worsen. The group urged Biden to convene a summit of stakeholders from across the health care system to identify immediate and long-term solutions for the boarding crisis. Despite current challenges, patients should still seek emergency care when they need it, she urged.

Source: Washington Post November 17, 2022 00:37 UTC