FinallyRetired
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A good friend cut his finger by accident yesterday, enough that the bone was showing and blood was spurting out. He went to his local ER where he had to wait four hours to be seen and stitched up with 8 stitches.
After two hours they even tried to get him to move his car, which they said was illegally parked, but he couldn't get his bleeding hand into his pocket to retrieve his keys, so they let him leave the car where it was.
The nurse told him they knew the ER situation was bad and would get worse, because it's always filled by patients without insurance, and with the swine flu scare there are many people there with just sniffles. I can understand that, but I can't believe there were four hours' worth of patients with more urgent injuries ahead of him. Don't they triage any more?
After two hours they even tried to get him to move his car, which they said was illegally parked, but he couldn't get his bleeding hand into his pocket to retrieve his keys, so they let him leave the car where it was.
The nurse told him they knew the ER situation was bad and would get worse, because it's always filled by patients without insurance, and with the swine flu scare there are many people there with just sniffles. I can understand that, but I can't believe there were four hours' worth of patients with more urgent injuries ahead of him. Don't they triage any more?