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Originally Posted by Yoho
I liked the significant decrease in response times with paramedics that no one seems to give her credit for.
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Because all it did was shuffle the problem from the paramedics to the ER. Do you think these patients magically skipped the ER? No. Instead of paramedics taking care of of them, they get dumped in hallways without attention. So sure, ambulance wait times are down, ER wait times are up. Nice fix.
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The doctors also point to a lack of beds and critical labour shortages at hospitals, stating “signs of a capacity crisis are everywhere.” They noted wait times have skyrocketed, with some waiting up to 15 hours to see a doctor in the ER.
“These patients often become sicker while waiting. We worry about these patients every shift,” they wrote. “It is now common to have 40 to 50 people waiting to be seen by a doctor at any given time in any of our emergency waiting rooms. Frail, elderly patients languish on stretchers in hospital hallways. Patients with mental-health crises are housed in the emergency room, often for several days, while awaiting in-patient beds.”
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https://calgaryherald.com/news/polit...mergency-rooms