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Originally Posted by GGG
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.
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They lived so they can’t complain about the wait? Really?
The purpose of the emergency room isn’t only to treat life or death emergencies, it’s to treat people who need unexpected acute care. The goal is, or it should be, to deliver that care as quickly as possible. The standard doesn’t change because a facility is publicly funded, but if it did that would actually make a pretty good argument against private healthcare since the standard there is if you have the money you
might get treatment faster than at a publicly funded facility but if you don’t have the money you’ll never get treatment.