HONOLULU (Island News) — “It’s stressful coming here. It’s stressful,” said Kailua-Kona resident Michael Ryan. “People my age don’t particularly deal well with stress.”
The first day of a five-day strike is already putting a strain on patients at Kaiser Permanente Hawaii.
“Sure it’s stressful ’cause I sat in there and waited and I thought, ‘I don’t think they’ll take me today because they didn’t have enough people,’ but then I was lucky the fellow came out just in time and I was able to get my injection. But some people walked out,” said Kaiser patient Mildred Botelho…