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Originally Posted by GGG
Is that unreasonable.
If the toddler got adequate medical care after being in the ER for 10 hours than perhaps the ER wasn’t the correct response. And if the concern was one of these things that a triage nurse was very easy to determine it wasn’t life threatening then I don’t see a 10 hour wait being an issue.
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Part of the issue is that ER staff are not allowed to turn away and re-route people who present with non-emergency or life threatening issues. A lot of it has to do with liability I’m sure (you don’t want to turn someone away and have them die two hours later). This, combined with Healthlink that directs people to the emergency room if they described symptoms which COULD indicate life-threatening issues, and the fact that people having severe mental issues (including people considering suicide) also funnel through the emergency room, means a lot of people who do not need to spend 10 hours in the emergency room spending 10 hours in the emergency room.
Is it unreasonable? Of course it is. You can question the right solution for it, but you shouldn’t have to ask if 10 hours at the emergency room is unreasonable.