I’m truly curious. Not even trying to complain, I understand the hospitals are full but like what takes so long to print paperwork?
UPDATE: Thank you all for your input and responses, it definitely helped the time pass by. We are home now. I do understand waiting is not suffering but at some point something has to give. We have an infant and toddler who had to be left with family and we were anxious to get home to them. I understand we are not the only people who have ever had to wait for discharge. I was truly curious as to what the hold up is. After getting incoming responses seeming to state that this is normal, it all got to me. This should not be normal and the patient, critical or not, should not have to get the short end of the stick. Reality or not. In a perfect world I guess.
Sorry to all the underpaid, over worked staff.
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Long story short each patient has one physician writing their discharge orders, but each physician might be writing discharge orders for between 3-10 other patients, each individualized. We can only perform one task at a time. And those carrying out the orders can only perform one task at a time. It’s a physical law of nature that someone will be the first to go, and someone else has to be the last.
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