Bhajipao moment

Hi friends, ER doc here.

You and your family should really think about masking up this holiday season.

If you don't, here is what is currently store for you:

• completely backed up urgent care centers

• Emergency Departments with 6 hour wait times

• Pediatric Emergency Departments with 9 hour wait times

• 72 hour boarding times in the Emergency department for patients admitted to the hospital. And no, I can't make a call and get your loved one upstairs faster, I've been haggling with bed control all day and they can't do shit.

• if you are admitted, a strong chance you are going to a “hallway room”, meaning a bed that is in a hallway

• if you scream at myself or my team to try to get things done faster we will probably just scream at you back at this point. Do you realize everyone is screaming at us about the conditions in the hospital? Literally every patient? The exception is family visitors—there is no debate, no discussion: if you scream at us at this point I am just having hospital security remove you

• your kid need high flow nasal cannula for their acute respiratory distress for their bronchiolitis? I'm working on it as best as I can but…well there is no easy way to tell you this…but we are kinda running low on those things. And RT is helping intubate a 4th kid this morning in the PICU so they aren't showing for a while anyway

You and your family should really think about wearing a mask this holiday season.