2025-11-14
33 分钟The emergency room is the last place any of us want to find ourselves.
But the reality is you or your loved one may end up there at some point.
And if you're dealing with an aging parent, things can get even more complicated.
There are easily tens of thousands of older adults who are lining the hallways of the emergency department.
And they're not always taken there due to emergencies.
The patients are neither straightforward nor clearly emergent.
Their vital signs are okay.
They don't look like they need an operation right away.
They don't need to get whisked off somewhere, so they wait.
They sit in crowded waiting rooms or on cots and hallways every single day.
Doctors Kevin Bice and Daniel Artiaga are both physicians working in emergency medicine and specializing in geriatric patients.
They've seen it time and time again.
There was an older lady on a cot in the corner, and I don't think about it.
Except I come back 12 hours later, same corner, same cot, same lady, I got pissed.
To us, that is a crisis.
medical humanitarian, it's a problem to be solved.
Welcome to The Unshakables from Chase for Business and Ruby Studio from iHeartMedia.
I'm Ben Walter, CEO of Chase for Business.
On The Unshakables,
we're sharing the daring moments of small business owners facing their crisis points and telling the stories of how they got through it.