The World Clock and More People
Yesterday I was in shock as I walked through the local hospital. Originally I had stopped in to visit an older lady that had broken her foot in a fall. Next I walked through the Emergency Department to find one more person. Emerge is where today’s serious cases and problems come for help. My shock came from the number of people sitting and waiting for help. The place was way passed packed. We had an epidemic of problems and sickness. Where had all the people come from?
For the folks from the Peterborough area – you will know the old hospital’s layout and especially the Emerge. For outsiders I will try to explain what we have now. In only about a year we will have a sparkling new hospital – just a short distance from the old one. They are building it now.
As you pull up to the front door you will find the Emerge entrance on the right. As you walk through the large glass doors the entrance conducts your steps to the left into the first waiting room. Straight ahead of you is the Triage Nurse that takes your information. To the left of her are the two secretaries that prepare your wrist band and charts for the present visit. To the left of this area there is a large, locked door that allows you to enter the back area of the Emerge – first with a long hall way to a back corridor and then with different rooms for different problems. It is a maze of hurting and sick people that are on rolling beds of all kinds.
The first waiting room yesterday was so full that they had to add many extra chairs. There were twice as many people waiting for their turn “to be seen” by a doctor. They had all been seen by the Triage Nurse, had their charts prepared and were now watching and waiting for their name to be called. My guess is there were 30 people waiting here – normally you can see 10 to 15 sitting for the name call.
The line up to the Triage nurse had another 8 and more were coming through the door every few minutes.
The normal place was full and running over. But this was not the end of it.
I walked through the large doors to go back through the main hospital to the parking lot at the rear. There on my right were many more people sitting and waiting. They now had another dozen chairs with people on each one. Some of the people had their family members standing beside them. This hallway leads to the Xray room. Normally in busy times it is also full of beds with waiting people in hospital gowns. Normally this is the overflow from the deeper Emerge beds. This hall way had three beds plus all the extra chairs now.
One man about my age sat with his shoe and sock off – and one very big, swollen right foot.
Back to the large, locked door in Emerge… Just inside that door were more chairs for people to sit on – I counted six and they were all full. Past these chairs in the hallway were beds everywhere. The bed that I was in for my Kidney Stone problem was full as were all the others down that hallway. The people that were really sick and needed the wires and tubes connected were in the deeper areas of Emerge still.
What is going on? Why so many people in Emerge? This is not even Flu season yet? This is “fall off the roof when you are on weak ladders” kind of season. This is “cut your hand” season or “headache” season – not “FULL EMERGE” season!
Some one asked me last week if I had gone to the hospital for the Emerge People to look at my sore left leg (after I fell off the ladder). “No” – was my reply. Now I saw the reason for my own doctoring of my own pain. I walked on through Emerge with my leg feeling great. If I had come in last Tuesday with my pain I would have just made it to the back hallway to sit beside the other guy with his shoe and sock off. These people were not waiting for hours now – they seemed to be waiting for days.
Where do they all come from?
Our Health Care system is not just stretched – it well past strained to the point of breaking. There are no more waiting rooms to allow people to sit. There are no more waiting hallways… after being created – they are now full. Unless they provide a kind of bunk or a double layer seat arrangement – THERE IS NO MORE ROOM – anywhere!
But it is not just the hospital Emerge… it is everywhere. The population has increased and this place that we live in is full of people…. And getting fuller everyday.
In two hours time the large street that our small one connects to will be too busy to drive on to – without a light. It is a main artery for shopping and getting somewhere. All people coming to our city use it and all people getting to a shopping mall, restaurant or whatever also use it. On Saturdays and rush hour we avoid it altogether. Even in our little city it is too tight and too many.
I had to use the huge 401 Highway once last week. It was nuts. For more than 30 miles we were packed in automobile vehicle clutter between thousands of slow moving trucks. At times we were “walled in” between semi-trailers with heavy loads. For this 30 miles stretch it was stop and go, stop and go, then wait. Something was wrong away up ahead and we were all going nowhere. Did I mention that this was three and four lanes across. Looking up ahead of us you could see cars and trucks that were lined up forever.
Where do all the people come from? Where are they going? Where do they live?
Our planet is filling up with people – there is no more room! I would never have thought that 50 years ago as a 13 year old boy living in southern Saskatchewan – where you are surrounded by absolutely nothingness – or a prairie that goes forever and when you finally get to the place called forever – you have just started on your journey.
Even empty little towns in Saskatchewan are now refilling as houses are no longer available in cities. I heard recently of a new pastor in Regina that now lives 30 miles from the city because he cannot find a house in the city. As I grew up in that area – it was unheard of to travel farther than a half hour to your home from work. In fact there was no place in the city of Regina that you need a half hour to get to… not then – but maybe now.
A Discovery…
I discovered through a friend an amazing and frightening clock on the Internet. It tells the time accurately for you the moment that you click on to it. But at the left of the actual clock is startling – it shows population growth. Below all that it shows all the other factors that we are now facing as problems in our old world. It also shows all the reasons that a lot of people are in the hospital now… wow!
My simple study getting ready for this posting is as follows… I copied the exact population at 8:09 AM yesterday and then a 6:59 AM today. In 23 hours and 50 minutes our world population has increased by 200,716 people. That is scary for me! How about for you? By the middle of this next week we will be One Million plus – more people.
At 8:09 AM October 19, 2007
World Population 6,628,360,717
.
At 6:59 AM October 20, 2007
World Population 6,628,561,433
Now what do I do with this information? I know that it is crowded in the Emerge and getting worse every day. It is busy on our roads – all the time. Housing is hard to get in some places. I live in a crowded world.
I have choices. The choice may include many things for me.
One startling thought for me is… God loves people. Today I am surrounded by more of God’s love than I have ever been before. Today I am also happy that I live where I do and can reach out to people when I have the opportunity.
~ Pastor Murray Lincoln ~
Amazing Real Time World Clock http://dalesdesigns.net/world_clock.htm
The Amazing Real Time World Clock is now part of our "Links" as well
For the folks from the Peterborough area – you will know the old hospital’s layout and especially the Emerge. For outsiders I will try to explain what we have now. In only about a year we will have a sparkling new hospital – just a short distance from the old one. They are building it now.
As you pull up to the front door you will find the Emerge entrance on the right. As you walk through the large glass doors the entrance conducts your steps to the left into the first waiting room. Straight ahead of you is the Triage Nurse that takes your information. To the left of her are the two secretaries that prepare your wrist band and charts for the present visit. To the left of this area there is a large, locked door that allows you to enter the back area of the Emerge – first with a long hall way to a back corridor and then with different rooms for different problems. It is a maze of hurting and sick people that are on rolling beds of all kinds.
The first waiting room yesterday was so full that they had to add many extra chairs. There were twice as many people waiting for their turn “to be seen” by a doctor. They had all been seen by the Triage Nurse, had their charts prepared and were now watching and waiting for their name to be called. My guess is there were 30 people waiting here – normally you can see 10 to 15 sitting for the name call.
The line up to the Triage nurse had another 8 and more were coming through the door every few minutes.
The normal place was full and running over. But this was not the end of it.
I walked through the large doors to go back through the main hospital to the parking lot at the rear. There on my right were many more people sitting and waiting. They now had another dozen chairs with people on each one. Some of the people had their family members standing beside them. This hallway leads to the Xray room. Normally in busy times it is also full of beds with waiting people in hospital gowns. Normally this is the overflow from the deeper Emerge beds. This hall way had three beds plus all the extra chairs now.
One man about my age sat with his shoe and sock off – and one very big, swollen right foot.
Back to the large, locked door in Emerge… Just inside that door were more chairs for people to sit on – I counted six and they were all full. Past these chairs in the hallway were beds everywhere. The bed that I was in for my Kidney Stone problem was full as were all the others down that hallway. The people that were really sick and needed the wires and tubes connected were in the deeper areas of Emerge still.
What is going on? Why so many people in Emerge? This is not even Flu season yet? This is “fall off the roof when you are on weak ladders” kind of season. This is “cut your hand” season or “headache” season – not “FULL EMERGE” season!
Some one asked me last week if I had gone to the hospital for the Emerge People to look at my sore left leg (after I fell off the ladder). “No” – was my reply. Now I saw the reason for my own doctoring of my own pain. I walked on through Emerge with my leg feeling great. If I had come in last Tuesday with my pain I would have just made it to the back hallway to sit beside the other guy with his shoe and sock off. These people were not waiting for hours now – they seemed to be waiting for days.
Where do they all come from?
Our Health Care system is not just stretched – it well past strained to the point of breaking. There are no more waiting rooms to allow people to sit. There are no more waiting hallways… after being created – they are now full. Unless they provide a kind of bunk or a double layer seat arrangement – THERE IS NO MORE ROOM – anywhere!
But it is not just the hospital Emerge… it is everywhere. The population has increased and this place that we live in is full of people…. And getting fuller everyday.
In two hours time the large street that our small one connects to will be too busy to drive on to – without a light. It is a main artery for shopping and getting somewhere. All people coming to our city use it and all people getting to a shopping mall, restaurant or whatever also use it. On Saturdays and rush hour we avoid it altogether. Even in our little city it is too tight and too many.
I had to use the huge 401 Highway once last week. It was nuts. For more than 30 miles we were packed in automobile vehicle clutter between thousands of slow moving trucks. At times we were “walled in” between semi-trailers with heavy loads. For this 30 miles stretch it was stop and go, stop and go, then wait. Something was wrong away up ahead and we were all going nowhere. Did I mention that this was three and four lanes across. Looking up ahead of us you could see cars and trucks that were lined up forever.
Where do all the people come from? Where are they going? Where do they live?
Our planet is filling up with people – there is no more room! I would never have thought that 50 years ago as a 13 year old boy living in southern Saskatchewan – where you are surrounded by absolutely nothingness – or a prairie that goes forever and when you finally get to the place called forever – you have just started on your journey.
Even empty little towns in Saskatchewan are now refilling as houses are no longer available in cities. I heard recently of a new pastor in Regina that now lives 30 miles from the city because he cannot find a house in the city. As I grew up in that area – it was unheard of to travel farther than a half hour to your home from work. In fact there was no place in the city of Regina that you need a half hour to get to… not then – but maybe now.
A Discovery…
I discovered through a friend an amazing and frightening clock on the Internet. It tells the time accurately for you the moment that you click on to it. But at the left of the actual clock is startling – it shows population growth. Below all that it shows all the other factors that we are now facing as problems in our old world. It also shows all the reasons that a lot of people are in the hospital now… wow!
My simple study getting ready for this posting is as follows… I copied the exact population at 8:09 AM yesterday and then a 6:59 AM today. In 23 hours and 50 minutes our world population has increased by 200,716 people. That is scary for me! How about for you? By the middle of this next week we will be One Million plus – more people.
At 8:09 AM October 19, 2007
World Population 6,628,360,717
.
At 6:59 AM October 20, 2007
World Population 6,628,561,433
Now what do I do with this information? I know that it is crowded in the Emerge and getting worse every day. It is busy on our roads – all the time. Housing is hard to get in some places. I live in a crowded world.
I have choices. The choice may include many things for me.
- One choice is to sit and mull it over then get depressed.
- Or – do nothing…
- Or maybe today to help one or more of those six billion, six hundred and twenty eight million, five hundred and sixty one million, four hundred and thirty three people as of 6:59 AM this morning.
One startling thought for me is… God loves people. Today I am surrounded by more of God’s love than I have ever been before. Today I am also happy that I live where I do and can reach out to people when I have the opportunity.
~ Pastor Murray Lincoln ~
Amazing Real Time World Clock http://dalesdesigns.net/world_clock.htm
The Amazing Real Time World Clock is now part of our "Links" as well
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