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Originally Posted by laceylady
The Ocala Regional Medical Center has billboards on I-75 and throughout Ocala announcing the current wait time in their ER. It is usually under 10 min. Yes, this is a trauma hospital but you can go there for other things too. My very sick husband has had surgeries, or ER visits in ORMC, Leesburg, TVRH and Munroe Hospital. By FAR, THE BEST IS ORMC. Last summer the ambulance wanted to take him to TVRH because it was "closest". Having just spent two weeks with him there as an impatient, I begged for somewhere else. They took him to ORMC at 4 am on a Sunday morning. They worked wonders. It is a 40 minute drive there on I75 as opposed to 30 minutes to TVRH from our house. Best 10 minutes we ever "wasted".
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Highway billboards announcing conveniently short ER wait times…...like it's McDonalds or Burger King and you want your burgers, fries and big gulp drinks in 3 minutes or less, no waiting. What a
farce it is when ER's do that!
Those fantasy wait times posted usually have fine print saying it means you "will be seen" by a "clinician" in 10 minutes, which could be a medical assistant taking your vital signs and then you wait while super-sick and complicated patients have every critical possible malady ruled out, are treated, and then wait hours more in the ER bed/room for a bed upstairs to be admitted.
And ORMC E.R.:
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