10/10/11 - Second day in the ER

The start of my first proper day in ER was very exciting with an elderly woman coming in from a car crash and needed both her lower legs amputated! After that things slowed down a bit as I was given a more extensive tour of the ER. I watched the Drs perform several procedures before I was shown around the complicated filing system! There is no computer based system in Jamaica instead each patient is given an ID number according to when they first turned up at the hospital then each individual file is stored in one of two rooms. That sounds easy enough but the problem is that many of the files are missing or incomplete. Some even have the wrong name!