Nerves are on edge in the emergency departments of hospitals in Upper Austria: last year there was a real rush during the Christmas holidays. Up to 40 percent of the ‘sick people’ only came because of minor complaints such as coughing, a cold or a rash. An angry doctor talks about his daily life.
“30 to 40 percent of the patients who attend our outpatient clinics, especially during the holidays, do not have room there. Over the past ten years, it has been noticeable that more and more younger people come to us who first enter their symptoms into Google and then read the worst possible diagnosis as the first hit,” says primary school Matthias Kölbl, head of the Ordensklinikum Linz. Elisabethine emergency clinic.
Source: Krone
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