Certainly not that long, but most emergency room waits are long, for whatever reason.
Once, in our small town hospital (population 16,000 souls....so not a huge city), I had to wait what seemed like forever for the orthopedic surgeon to arrive after our son, age 10, broke his leg (got kicked accidentally by another player) while playing youth soccer. His coach called me; the coach accompanied son to the emergency room via ambulance and then we arrived. They gave him one aspirin. Put him in the hallway. We have a great hospital.........but the wait was like an eternity.
When my husband had his gallbladder attack but thought it was a heart attack, he got in 1.2.3. I guess they take the worst case emergency first.......but our son had to lay out in the hallway for hours.
When my mom tripped over a "log" while on a field trip with her senior center club........they also took her right in......so I guess up here it is a matter of priority or seniority..........or maybe it was just a slow day.
Wonder if there was a heart attack patient or very critical patient who came in first?
But, that is a sad story with all the elderly waiting and waiting in the emergency room...........hopefully, next time it is a shorter wait in TV
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