rooms suck! 41/2 hours of waiting, with like over 75 ppl, I finally walked out of there, disgusting![]()





rooms suck! 41/2 hours of waiting, with like over 75 ppl, I finally walked out of there, disgusting![]()
MANY MEN WANTED TO LAY ME DOWN, BUT FEW WANTED TO LIFT ME UP
-Eartha Kitt
whoa what city is that. i heard a report on npr once about the long waiting time. here in memphis, i only go to one hospital for emergencies cuz i know i will be helped quickly. and depending on the problem does your city have minor medical centers? those are good too
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Yha but once your admitted they're nice...but then that means your sick enough to be admitted.
I love extended stay hospital beds, so comfy.





i've -never- waited less than 3 hours in an ER, with the exception of the time i had a head injury.
i once sat in the ER for 4 hours with a broken ankle before being seen. i've waited pretty long during asthma attacks too.





See, this is why you should all move to Australia. I'm always helped within half an hour and that one time something was wrong with my eyes, I was nearly thrown into the ER and looked at by 4 specialists.
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when i.. lets say, took a few too many tylenol, i remember having to wait in the emergency room too. by the time they get me back there they say, "oh, if you had waited much longer you couldve had liver failure." oh ok well then thanks for making me wait so long!





We've got a couple of hospitals in towns that have a wait time of no more than 30 minutes.
It sucks but it's almost always like that. The hospital I was born in, and insist on going to even though it's 25 miles away, has a program in place now. If you come in with a heart attack, or apparent broken bone, they rush you. I thought I broke my ankle a while back (I have bad ligaments so it was just that acting up again and horrifically sprained) but they had me in a curtain within 20 minutes.
Not enough employees, too many sick people. I hope you're feeling better now and it wasn't anything too serious.




4 hours is not long in my city unfortunately. 8-12 hour wait times are not uncommon, as well as taking numbers and being asked to come back tomorrow![]()
Yeah..this is why I never go to the ER unless I feel like I am dying. ONCE I went to the ER voluntarily...I had pneumonia and was so severely dehydrated they said if I hadnt come in,theres a very good chance I would have died. I damn sure felt like I was.
I was sent to the ER when I worked at the vet hospital for slicing open my finger(a careless tech left the scalpel blade attached when she soaked the instruments...grrr). I waited 3 hours for ONE stitch. While the Dr told me all about his MALPRACTICE suit.
I said I'd never go again...if I got cut again I'd have one of the vets sew me up...its the same damn thing anyway!
Sometimes they are really ridiculous, like having an 8 hour wait.
I spent 5 hours waiting to get a dog bite stitched up when I was a kid. They put me in a private room only because my eyelid was hanging off and they didn't want me in the waiting room. On top of that, they refused to let me eat anything and it was right after school so I was STARVING.![]()
It's like that because so many people treat the emergency room like a walk in clinic, which it isn't.
That's what I was about to say. If every dumbass didn't go to the ER for bronchitis and the flu, and every other ailment that can wait for your family doctor, the ERs wouldn't be so crowded.
Luckily, the ER we go to is never that bad. When I thought my hand was broken, I only waited a few minutes before they got me in. It took forever after that, but I got put in a room fairly quickly.
Just saw this story today, a woman died in a waiting room.
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/...ped_dying.html




Unfortunately the ER IS a walk in clinic for people who don't have health insurance. Especially when you're close to Mexico and many illegals go to the hospital ERs for free care. How do you make them pay? You can't, they disappear. At least not before reaping the benefits of our health care system that not even I as a US citizen can afford to do, lengthening our wait times, and then fleeing back into the ghettos.
That sucks.. you should try a quick care center instead.
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