Hear Louis B Homer of the Express' south bureau:
Patients had complained about the overcrowding in the asthma room, which should cater only for patients in need of resuscitation.
One patient who was in the asthma room said: "I come here to be resuscitated but instead I am now suffering from suffocation"
Definitions of resuscitate on the Web:
- To revive.
www.reefed.edu.au/glossary/r.html - To restore to life. Derived from the Latin resuscitare, to reawaken.
www.medicinenet.com/stroke/glossary.htm - cause to regain consciousness; "The doctors revived the comatose man"
- come to: return to consciousness; "The patient came to quickly"; "She revived after the doctor gave her an injection"
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
So, is it an asthma room or a resuscitation room? Methinks Homer meant the patients who need nebulisers; but then again he writes with the intelligence of another Homer.
