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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Waiting 10 hours in a room, especially one with sick people, is an issue.
What are you finding difficult to understand? Even your solution (better non-hospital care for minor issues) would solve the issue that was brought up, so you seem (in an abstract way) to acknowledge the existence of the issue. What’s confusing you?
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I’m not confused. I disagree that it is an issue. I’m suggesting that the purpose of an emergency room is to treat life or death emergencies and triaging cases that are satisfactorily resolved after 10 hrs of waiting is a reasonable standard for publicly funded healthcare.
The issues around emergency room care are things like ambulance crews being held because of not getting in resulting in no ambulances on the street.
So if someone lived and is complaining about a long wait they are complaining about the wrong service.