{"id":28532,"date":"2011-10-01T18:31:34","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T18:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_night_in_the_er_adrenaline_chaos_and_very_long_waits\/"},"modified":"2011-10-01T18:31:34","modified_gmt":"2011-10-01T18:31:34","slug":"a_night_in_the_er_adrenaline_chaos_and_very_long_waits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28532","title":{"rendered":"(LA Times) A night in the ER: adrenaline, chaos and very long waits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The crowding has become so severe that county officials acknowledge something must be done. They are discussing adding inpatient beds and transferring more patients to other hospitals, among other steps.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A nine- or 10-hour wait is never a good thing,&#8221; said Dr. Arthur Kellermann, a Rand Corp. expert on emergency medicine. &#8220;At the least, it is demeaning, frustrating, uncomfortable, and when tempers flare, it can be dangerous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/health\/la-me-county-usc-20110930,0,4915193,full.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crowding has become so severe that county officials acknowledge something must be done. They are discussing adding inpatient beds and transferring more patients to other hospitals, among other steps. &#8220;A nine- or 10-hour wait is never a good thing,&#8221;<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28532\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,615,149,104,114,151,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-city-government","category-economy","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}