The ICU bed concern is real. Small hospitals like the one I work at are having hell getting critically ill patients transfered to larger hospitals. I have personally contacted as many as 22 hospitals before finding a ICU bed. And often that bed is in another state. I know of patients that have had to be sent from the southern half of Alabama to north Georgia, Tennessee, and even one to Arkansas. My advice is don't have a heart attack, a stroke or get in a bad wreck right now.


The best index to a person’s character is (a) how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can’t fight back.
- Abigail van Buren