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Originally Posted by Manfap
She`s not gonna die, so she waits.. Always depends on what traffic the hospital is getting at that time.
I've waited 10 minutes in hospitals, I`ve waited 6 hours. Depends what you've got/ who else has got what etc..
Also kids/head injuries pretty much always get priority, a cut finger however bad is just a cut finger.
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My mother cut her hand real bad while on vacation, she went to the local hospital in the resort town, the deep cut had severed nerves - they didn't have a specialist surgeon, no small town hospital would, so they told her to drive to the city 2 hours away and get to an emergency room, where she waited again. she did have specialized surgery hours later but the wait was too long and the nerves were badly damaged - so she spent the rest of her life with very little use of that hand.
It might not seem like it's as urgent as a heart attack or a knife in somebody's neck but shitty medical care can affect the rest of your life and stories like this exist in most countries, Canada for sure. We have cases of people dying in ER waiting rooms without ever being seen by a doctor.