[queasy27]

Being seen and treated in the emergency room is different from waiting to be admitted or for a bed to become available.

I've been treated in the ERs at Leesburg and TV hospitals for cardiac arrhythmia. All three times I was triaged, seen by a physician, and treated within 10 minutes of arrival. I had to wait about 9 hours for a room at Leesburg but was on a gurney or in a bed in the ER, which honestly is not that much different from being in a bed upstairs.

Both hospitals did very well by me in emergency situations as well as in the care I received after being admitted. (Can also attest that the cardiac ward at Leesburg is quite plush.)

I feel very badly when I hear stories of people sitting in the waiting room for hours and hours but also can't help but wonder why they were willing to do so. Being in an ER waiting room for that long would exhaust and defeat me more thoroughly than whatever illness I was there for.