America's Hospital-Bed Shortage Is About to Become a Crisis
In the television drama 'The Pitt,' patients in a fictional emergency room in Pittsburgh are sometimes 'boarded' in corridors for hours, even days, waiting for a hospital bed.
Art, in this case, imitates real life. I once took care of an elderly woman with congestive heart failure who was held in the E.R. for three days before being transferred to a medical ward. She endured the harrowing experience with grace, respectfully requesting a hospital bed each morning, even as she struggled to sit up on her lumpy stretcher so I could listen to her lungs.
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