Emergency departments are for emergencies. Sickest people are seen first. If you end up waiting many hours it is usually because there are people sicker than you who need help first. When staff are helping critically ill patients, or comforting families who have lost loved ones, it is unfair and inappropriate to stand there, sipping your Tim Hortons, and yell about how long you have been waiting. You weren’t dying, but some people are. —FYI
This article appears in Oct 5-11, 2017.
Hear ye!, hear ye!
I personally like the idea of having emergency rooms and walk in clinics attached in every hospital. When you walk in and get triaged if its an emergency put them through emergency, if its something you shouldnt be in emergency for direct them to the attached walk in clinic. Problems solved