Doctors To Improve System

Doctors To Improve System, Saturday morning, 11:17 clock: In the emergency clinic at the Raphael Clinic Münster are occupied almost all the chairs in the waiting area. Not all patients are waiting. Many patients have a companion there. Before receiving a snake has formed.

Then there is queuing: For most patients, between half and three quarters of an hour, says a medical assistant. “Compared to the other weekends it is quiet,” she says. In the first three hours, about 20 patients had been there.

A week earlier patients had reported chaos in the emergency surgery. Medicines were in short supply, waiting would have been sitting on the floor. “If it is suddenly full of now, we do not have chairs, we can set up,” says the assistant. Of medication is in stock, what you would find in a normal general practice.

For half an hour waiting Katherine Sand Kämper. Five or six patients are still before her turn, she estimated. “An hour wait is already long,” she says, but they had expected worse. has “At the emergency service at the weekend to set themselves even from the outset a fact that it could take longer,” says Matthias Pohlmann Kathrin Kämper sand driven into practice. Composure, despite a fever.

Dr. Martin Holt Meier added that Saturday service in the emergency surgery. He admits that in the first few weeks were teething problems, but it was no surprise: “All parties have been thrown into the deep end.” But now the system is on track, says the GP from Muenster. The emergency clinic is now a private number to reach (0251/98113817). Patients may call directly and ask how full it is now. The cooperation with the neighboring Central interdisciplinary have played host to. “I can now also use the ultrasound there,” Holt says Meier.

Meanwhile, try to physicians in Germany, independently rectify weaknesses in the system. Says Rose Monday was as though no official emergency service day, yet many doctors close to the city on that day their practices. “The demand is so there,” Holt says Meier. So it’s organized the way that the emergency clinic is open at the Raphael Clinic on Rose Monday, two doctors will be there. Just as well this weekend at peak times. “So we better deal with the onslaught.”

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