Mm-hmm

... who resuscitated you, uh, uh, and stabilized you in the, in the field, got you to an emergency department at, at, uh, where, where doctors in the ER, my colleague could, uh, uh, preserve you during that, what we call that golden hour, making sure you had pro- fluid resuscitation, that your blood pressure wasn't too high and wasn't too low, uh, and stabilized you to get you to the surgeons who could do that, uh, that control surgery.

So that's, that's, that's one thing I wanted to say.

The other comment I wanted to make is that when we've...

We've heard a lot about collapse, about patients who've waited eight hours with chest pain and, and in the waiting room, and, uh, one thing we have not heard about, which I'm very happy to hear, I, I haven't heard stories in the news of patients, uh, who had terrible, uh, traumas, uh, who couldn't be brought to a trauma center in time.

Mm-hmm.

So, so, um, we don't, we don't...

I, I can tell you, I, that, that, that email to me was priceless because I've never, I've never had an email like that.

No, no.

I'm not surprised.

And especially since – to do the book, I've been to emergency departments big and small right across the country.

And I work in an emergency department that is not going to close down because we have staff.

We have adequate staff and we have a cooperative group when somebody has a family emergency.

There's somebody on call.

There's somebody who can step in.

really

Where would, where would somebody find more information about that if they're interested in, in participating?

Yeah.

So, uh, we're on RunSignup.

Uh, that's where our registration page is.

Um, our, uh, website is everydayenduranceraces.com. Um, and then we're on, uh, Facebook, Instagram, uh, under Everyday Endurance Races and I believe Mile Madness.

Um, so the race is, uh, September 18th to the 21st.

Um, and it's not just about the, uh, runners.

Mm-hmm

And [clears throat]

It's not rocket science too.

It's, it's we have cut 60 to 70% of the beds out of the system.

And, you know, there was a time 30, 40 years ago when there was the promise of same-day surgery, and to a large extent it's been realized.

But, but it's not same-day surgery for an 82-year-old with, you know, with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and, and, and chronic kidney disease from type 2 diabetes.

No, siree, it's not.

They're gonna be admitted to hospital and they're gonna be there for days, weeks, maybe longer.

What is hallway medicine, what is chair medicine, and what's the trend?

What is that holding pattern and why is it happening?

The holding pattern.

Okay, so first of all, I see the patient.

I do some blood work.

I do a CT scan.

I size up their situation at home.

And for whatever reason, they need to be admitted to hospital.

What is Denmark doing that we could learn from?