You'd better like grapefruit -- a lot. Most versions of this diet recommend eating it with every meal. The classic version of the diet involves: Cutting back on sugar and carbs (including rice, potatoes, and pasta) Avoiding certain foods, such as celery and white onion.
As one of several measures of efficiency, the Medicare data shows the average wait time in an emergency department until the patient is seen by a doctor, nurse practitioner or physician's assistant â and compares that to state and national averages of 33 and 30 minutes.
23 percent of psychiatric patients wait in the emergency department more than six hours, versus 10 percent of medical patients. 7 percent of psychiatric patients stay in the emergency department for more than 12 hours, versus just over 2 percent of medical patients. 11 percent of psychiatric patients wind up transferred to another facility, compared with 1.4 percent of medical patients.