Emergency Room Wait Times - Why Are They So Long? CEO explains.
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- In this episode of Talking with Docs, we are honored to host Melissa Farrell, CEO of Halton Healthcare and a prominent figure in the healthcare industry. Melissa joins us to discuss pressing topics such as the challenges of managing wait times in the healthcare system, strategies for reducing delays, and her insights into creating a more efficient and compassionate healthcare landscape. Tune in as we gain valuable perspectives from a leader dedicated to driving positive change in healthcare delivery.
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I'm just thrilled we don't have to wait so long for videos from our favorite Docs!! 🥰
I'm so thankful for the smaller urgent care facilities that have opened up in our area. This has saved beds for the most urgent care patients.
The ones in our area are on the verge of shutting down due to lack of funding from the government.
We are supporting our primary care offices too. Big time. PSA... do NOT go to urgent care with chest pain!
I thank the Good Lord for our ER. There have been times when I was very ill. Thank goodness they were there to help me. God Bless the ER people .
I like that you have done videos with the CEO
1 Gives the other side of things
2 She obviously supports what you are doing here on this channel
👍👍
In my health system, you can get a virtual visit with a specially trained registered nurse that can authorize medication for simple problems. It’s all done online. a step up from that is a telephone visit from a medical doctor/nurse practitioner/physician assistant. And a step up from that is a video visit. All three of these happen with in a few minutes to an hour.
Only once did I choose to wait till the next day (it was a holiday)
Urgent care is open every day.
Advice nurses are available 24/7/365 with physician back up for more difficult advice situations.
Of course, then there is the ER
I'm 71 years old and had severe back pain ,some chest and left arm pain also. I am not doing a commercial so I hope it doesn't sound like it, but give thanks where it's due. At 10:00 pm I go to an Adventist emergency room, not a hospital where they got me in immediately, did a scan, my back was fractured from Multiple Myeloma which I didn't know I had and I was transported to an Adventist hospital for surgery. I spent 30 days in the hospital and rehab and my treatment at both facilities could not have been better, I am grateful. I believe Doctors can tell by looking and asking a few quick questions as to how urgent your emergency is in most cases.
Yes! I was in an ER last month with tons of pain, and I ended up with a 9mm kidney stone. Got in quick, doc realized I wasn't there for pain pills, started treatment, got a referral, got lucky with a surgery date because someone canceled. Grateful to all of the medical people who helped
My 84 year old mother arrived by ambulance only to be placed in the waiting area for 7 hours they felt her vitals were not that bad but she was in severe pain and hospital was saying they don't have a bed available.While waiting they did take her for blood work and a cat scan and placed her back in waiting area but they never checked her lactid acid till much later which had reached a level of 5 very concerning. Severe Sepsis was already invading her body and her cat scan revealed toxic megacolon. Treatment with broad spectrum antibiotics where not working and was told they would have to remove all her intestines but was warned she might not make it since so much time had passed. Unfortunately she passed the very next day. It makes me very angry that she waited all that time and I will always think if she had received treatment immediately she might have had a better outcome. The healthcare system has fallen apart and things only seem to be getting worse.
I have a basic rule for visits to the ER: The longer you wait, the better, because that means you aren’t about to die. I once waited for 12 hours in an ER with a kidney stone and was glad to do it (the stone passed after 6 hours). And I agree: always treat the ER staff nicely. Always.
I think it is part of triage too when you do not leave and are human about it they take you more seriously.
The scariest thing ever was when I went to the ER super short of breath when I was pregnant. There was zero wait! The doctor and nurse RAN to meet me in the room while a nurse RAN my wheelchair to them. Scared the crud out of me to see them work that fast! Once they ruled out the scariest of stuff, I learned how urgent it was for them. I was definitely grateful, but still scared me. (I’m in the US).
Totally agree. Years ago showed up with a chemical burn to my eye. They didn’t even want my name they they just rushed me to the back at that moment. I realized it was probably a lot more serious than I thought. Good outcome though.
@@dboutier5636 that made me wince in sympathy! Ouch! Glad you had a good outcome with that!
It is really unsettling to be the center of that kind of urgent, concentrated care in the ER. We are used to the opposite being the norm. I remember one nurse putting EKG stickers on me while another took my vitals, and a Dr asked me basic questions. I was in a CT scan within 15 minutes. Thankfully it wasn’t a blood clot like they were afraid of. But I had developed a pregnancy related heart condition that required treatment and early delivery. I had a good outcome, too. My miracle girl will be 16 in a couple months.
Well I think the problem is the need of more GPs to prevent people from going to the ER , people go because they don't have other option . We are waiting long for everything now is getting ridiculuos. My husband and I had to pay privately for MRI and byopsi and we've been waiting months to see the specialist. 🙏🙏
good point . Between 9pm-9am there is no clinic open. these docs may know 'i can wait till morning' but the way you feel when you are sick, and the results you get when you search , you get results from common cold to cancer for the same symptom, common person will think of going to clinic.
So many people just run to the ER for things that aren't emergencies!
We have new urgent care facilities popping up everywhere! Their goal was to keep real non-emergencies out of the ER.
Plus, Urgent Care is much cheaper than the ER in a hospital Even insurance companies acknowledge that and your copay is usually in the range of $50 but it's more like $200-$500 at the ER!
This is a great public service announcement!
Thanks for sharing another great video!👍
We don’t have a long wait here in the ER in Southwest Louisiana. Its pretty decent wait times! Thanks Docs!! ❤❤
Sorry I am not sure if a buy your main reason, I came into emergence with a broken arm. I did not need a bed but it still waited 6 hours to get a cast on. My son in Oct. 2023 waited 5.5 hours for 6 stitches. Once again neither of us needed a bed or overnight stay. From friends and family I hear the same thing, even though you do not need a bed it takes 3 to 6 hours to get treated in a hospital in Ontario Canada.
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But really, those conditions are relatively minor and can wait.
Outstanding information 👏 thank you 😊
You guys are simply WONDERFUL! 👍🇺🇸🥰
I know this is because of prioritizing patients. Of course. I dont go to ER unless its truly an emergency. I broke my hip a couple years ago and they admitted me, but i couldnt get a bed till after my surgery the next day. I get it. At least they were very helpful making me comfortable in the ER room.
Can you do a video to discern who should go to the ER vs Urgent Care?
I waited 18 hours last year in the ER. Others had waited longer. Part of the problem was that the computer system was down. It was a nightmare but I don’t blame the staff.
Fortunately I was taken to the ER via EMS, who ran an EKG on the way and gave me an aspirin. The cardiac surgeon was there 2 minutes after I was taken into a room in the ER and then to the cath lab for a stent. I spent more time trying to ignore my symptoms than the time it took to get EMS at my door, transport me to the ER and have the stent put in place. All emergency services should be as responsive and, if properly staffed, they could be.
Very nice. The EMS system is taught how to recognize heart attacks and work well with the hospital andcardiac cath team.
You had a true emergency. Most of the other people in the comments did not.
There’s a difference.
It all comes down to one name with the initials D.F., in my area you are guaranteed a six hour wait.
Spent 18 hours with my 80 year old mother. Worst ever!
Well, we know where to throw the blame for the mess but, lordy, they need to get this fixed!!!
All of the doctors and nurses stop voting for FORD
Ugh. Have spent so many hours in ER with my mom, waiting for this, waiting for that, waiting for tests, waiting for doctors, waiting for nurses, usually while an impatient patient in another room yells "Can I please get something for the paaaain?! Hello! Excuse me! I need something for the paaaain!".
Never had to wait long for the person with the computer cart to come get our payment process done though. Funny, that.
Six weeks ago I wasn't feeling myself, it turned out to be a reaction of my afib to my fever. Ambulance came, these people are so strong (you try to lift some 300+ pound 6'4" giant). I was completely out of it. Went straight to a room and put on antibiotics. Blood work came back, the doctors were sporadically showing up. Before I knew it, it was morning and I felt completely fine. I had been getting up by myself the later part of the night. They wanted to keep me another day, I convinced them I was doing much better. Hug for the doctor and my wife was ready to drive me home where I got the sleep I needed. I have been waiting in the hospital for 16 hours and know what stress these nurses and doctors go through daily. See for us, it is only one crappy night, for them, it is every night. 10 or 12 hours shifts, try to keep up with that. I know the government is telling us we will get more beds but who will staff these beds?
This lack of "flow" has been foreseen for DECADES... I trained as a gerontologist 35 years ago when we took lectures to learn how demographics and politics would likely combine to pose problems in not only health care but housing and other age-related issues as well. Unforeseen challenges such as COVID and inflation and climate change have only exacerbated the situation.
Changing our institutions is like trying to get a stubborn elephant to turn around while herding cats. We have a huge, but entirely FORESEEN cohort of seniors moving through now. And what is our short-sighted leadership spending time and resources doing? This brain trust is FIGHTING AMONG THEMSELVES when they're not obsessing about such pressing issues as whether some students should be allowed to call themselves by a different name.
When the ship is sinking it's standard practice that at some point the "strongest" will collude to lighten the load by heaving the weakest and most vulnerable overboard. Good luck, seniors!
Glad to hear that long wait times are not just happening in the UK. We are often told that long wait times are due to poor organisation of resources, but the reality is that this is happening everywhere because demand will always outstrip supply.
I always feel so guilty attending the Emergency Dept at a local hospital when I know that it’s not a matter of life or death, but rather something that needs to be dealt with in a time-sensitive fashion. However, I cannot get an appointment to see my doctor for literally weeks. A compounding problem is that if I attend a walk-in clinic, I risk my Doctor de-rostering me. My situation is not likely life-threatening, but I could get back to work much more quickly perhaps if I could see my family physician. An observation that I share is that “Emergency” rarely translates into “in a hurry”. In attending a smaller Emergency room I can usually observe and hear the banter going on between docs and nurses. Things seem to occur at a much more casual pace than I would expect. My best guess is that the documentation/paperwork are taking an inordinately large part of their time?
I'm praying around Mt area in gets better. I used to work in the hospital and their short staffed. There's more Drs coming from another country these days. Hospital I worked at I blame the ones that don't have their sleeves rolled up but make rules not listening to the Drs. and nurses. We have to work as a team together.
In January I ended up in ER at 5pm and it took several hrs for them to see me, they inserted a pic line so they could give me pain meds, put me back in the waiting room until 12:30am when I was taken to emergency surgery for blocked bowl.
I worked er Trenton 11-7 late night shift. We did our best in an inner city hospital. The sickest went first, next the children (I didn’t want kids see the horrors that came in. Of course there were the children that were left at 11 pm so mom and dad could go to Atlantic City leaving the hospital as the baby sitter. The constipations that came-handed them a fleets after X-ray showed no major complication and sent home to see their doc the next day.
Come to New Jersey in the summer, Southern Ocean County hospital. You can sit there for hours in the ER everybody’s down for the summer at there beach house and they go right to the emergency room for everything.
It’s the same in the UK
My mother 84 years old waited over 7 hours to be treated she did not make it. It's a real shame how are healthcare system is so broken down.
Well, I don't know about health care Canada, but in my most recent interaction with the ER in the US is that the hospitals cannot turn away anyone coming to the ER regardless if they have health insurance or not. I believe this to be true. The worst times to head to the ER in the US are between 5PM and 5AM. Canada may be different. I think it is ashame tht one of the richest countries in the world has one of the poorest health care systems for its citizens.
I would like to hear from your ER nurses. I'm sure they have some little nuggets to share. The CEO is going to give the fluffiest answer.
We need more nurses practitioners to take some of the load off the hospital with there own clinics who could assess whether emergency care at the hospital is appropriate put them in a separate space adjacent to the hospital
Here in Newfoundland, I took my 7 month old baby to kids ER and the wait was so long. I saw the nurses online shopping for bikinis while the doctor was hopping around dancing at another point with some of her colleagues. Its hard to see how they are working. I wanted to make a video of them and post online on reddit. Should have.
And remember, you are in charge of your own health!
I would have to be dying to go to the ER. The wait is anywhere from 7-10 hrs. A friend’s husband just spent 36 hrs. in the ER waiting for a bed nd they’re treating patients in the halls of the ER. No privacy.
Since only a small percentage of ER visits result in an admission, the excuse that there are no beds doesn't cut it.
I must be lucky. I've never had a long wait at an ER. A few months ago I went in for severe pain and it ended up being a hernia. I was in, had a CT scan, and was out in just 2 hours.
So basically not enough capacity to service all the demand. Is this true in the US as well?
Yes, very much so. Many American ER's are overloaded. Not every single hospital, just like here there are hospitals with lower waits than others, the same is true in the US. Little known fact, more Canadians still have a family doc than Americans do. They have a more pressing shortage of primary care than we do. That's how global the health crisis is. It seems to be a common economic problem in the era of austerity, most western countries are having issues.
I was in the ER a few years ago at my job. I was there for eight hours and I finally got up and walked out. I thought that was ridiculous.
And you lived to tell about it
@@ustabee6091 Because God is good ❤️
We have emergency clinics about every 200 feet around here. I don’t know how they all stay in business.
i would also love the hear if the patient wait is going down now compared to before covid. because comparing now to covid isnt giving us much info. of course its better now then covid. we dont have a pandemic now. .
Or...the hospital has empty beds but inadequate staff because they treat caregivers so badly they left, or the computer system was a bargain basement deal that doesn't interface with surgery or the lab, or.....in America it's all about the money, and screw quality.
Well, in my experience the staff is treated pretty well. A lot of it is the expectation of younger staff whose work ethic could be a little more robust. It's not an easy job. If it was, everybody would be doing it.
I'm sorry to say that you have changed my perspective on hospitals. I really wish I could go to the hospital and meet doctors like you. I was avoiding going to the hospital by any means.
The importance of science management has long been recognized. Fund more PhD students, or help them obtain funding. When talking about the waiting time for a medical service , it is like any industrial process that can be computerized, mathematically modeled, and monitored. If you don't measure, you don't know. Your boss should be able to see live data every minut from her office
I went to the ER once in agony. I was in a room for 1 1/2 hours before anyone even asked about what was happening. While waiting, a Dr & nurse stopped outside my room and I heard him say ‘I don’t want to do triage’. Excuse me!? If you do triage, you can assess the patient’s needs and prioritize their needs to more efficiently manage the case flow!!
Thank you - but in the U S, primary care doctors are near impossible to find, when you finally do, the they leave the practice
Was in the ER a few weeks ago in the US. The waiting rooms were full of people who couldn't speak English, and without US passports and health insurance. This is the real reason why ER wait times are so long and costs so high.
I was in Florida in March and had to take my son to a medical center. It was fantastic. The people were friendly, efficient, quick and what would have taken 12 hours in Ontario took about 1.5 hours. I gladly paid $150 US out of my pocket. I think if I ever get seriously sick, I am going to Buffalo or Detroit.
Our medical system in Ontario is badly broken. This video did not really answer the question for me about wait times and what is being done about it. I fully expect to die on a gurney in a hospital hallway. Thinking about retiring in a different country to access a better healthcare system.
Fair. The two main issues are staffing of the hospitals and long term care beds to prevent hospitals from housing these patients. Many people are considering your strategy of looking elsewhere to retire
Okay BUT when the waiting room is empty, you see the staff just hanging around "in back", it is all quiet "back there", and then when you're brought back and see no one in one exam room after another and you saw no one get moved out, what's your excuses then?
That does happen.
The VA sent me to a hospital ER to be admitted for tests. I spent 12 hours in the waiting room be fore I went into the actual ER. Once in there I spent an additional 13 hours before I got into a room, I had 2 meals in the ER. This was during covid and they had people lining the walls in beds. My advice if you have to go, take a pillow and plenty of snacks.
My dad was a veteran, but we lived over 2 hours from the nearest VA hospital. I took him to the local ER on Christmas Day once bc he foot and calf swelled way up and got really red. I knew it was possibly a blood clot and the drive to the VA was the worst thing for him, He was admitted with 3 deep vein clots. The VA wanted him discharged, and transported by family car to the VA!!!! Awful way to treat our veterans. Thank you for your service. ❤️
OK, now have your CEO propose solutions to the lack of family doctors or other primary care providers. Here in BC our government has made large increases to physician payments yet still our former family doctor left the practice and we find they are now working at a cosmetic clinic.
Given the wait lists we'll be lucky to live long enough to get another doctor so at this point I don't care if my primary care is provided by a doctor, a nurse practitioner, a physician assistant, or even a particularly clever AI chatbot.
Canada should welcome Drs from other countries without making them go back to school here first before licensing!! These Drs who wants to come here are highly experienced well educated very well qualified Drs practicing for years in their own country! They don’t need to go to school here!🤦
@@merlemcdonald8100 I don't disagree with you - in fact, our former doctor was a recent immigrant. I suspect, but cannot prove, that they agreed to be a family doctor for three years to get citizenship.
There also needs to be some vetting of credentials. Without getting into specifics, when the pharmacist says "that's an interesting off-label use" it says something.
6 hrs minimum wait here in B.C.🤦
I figured it was so they can bill insurance for the full day. One of the providers as much as admitted it to me. Old people can't stay on those hard gurney all day. I took the iv out myself. Slapped on a bandaid and said bye.
So, how did you do without finishing treatment.
That is, what was the outcome of your emergency?
@@annarn6540 They referred me to a specialist. But they wanted to stretch tge visit out to 6 hours. After that they can bill for a full day. Once I realized the danger was passed and they just kept leaving me sit there without discharge I became so angry that they ignored me. My old bones just couldn't take anymore.
when i gave birth a number of years ago way before the pandemic i was told there arent enough beds. its been a problem in some places for many years. especially in the inner cities where population is dense and more care is needed. and the demands are high.
there are a variety of reasons for wait times.
change in shift when nurses and doctors leave and next one comes create a slower pace. its just the way it is.
not enough doctors and nurses
not enough beds! in dense neighborhoods where there arent enough hospitals
too many illegal coming for care where its free and dont have money to pay they block the emergency patients time bec everyone deserves to get care.
if there is a large amount of very sick patients coming at the same time. waiting time is longer. there are levels of care in emergency situations. a car accident crash victim that needs emergency surgery right now will come before someone that has a broken foot. and has all thier vitals and is stable. just needs a cast and x rays. a woman needing a caesarean emergency will come before stitches usually depending on the level of severity.
there are levels in emergency and that can add to waiting time.
Hey Docs its interesting that you have long waits in ED ,here in Adelaide South Australia our ED wait times are bad ,i waited 5 hours in ED with a gaul blader attack which had to be removed ,the level of care is second to none ,and its hard for the medical staff they are run of their feet.Mental health is a big problem taking up bed,s sadly most caused by Drugs ,most of our GP,s dont bulk bill anymore so people go to ED for free care,we have a shortage of GP,s and most young medical graduates are choosing specialist fields as trying to run a GP practice is financially very challenging,add to all this tight government budgets not being able to afford to employ enough Doctors nurses and general medical staff,i personally pay to have private health cover which lets me go to my own choice Doctor and private Hospital,case in point last June i had my TKR done within 2 weeks of seeing my Surgeon ,if i was on the Public waiting list it like a 2 year wait ,.Hope ive given you some interesting overview of our system 😊😊😊
Kym
Adelaide
Is this referring to Canada, and if so, which province?
Next address why does it take so long to get lab results? (or at least ALL of the hospital staff thinks it does)
I belong to a doctors office where we are not allowed to go to walk in clinics that aren't associated with the practice. Is urgent care considered a walk in? I am just wondering.
Yes, I think it is considered a walk-in but you’d be best to confirm this with your doctor’s office so you know what your options are before you require urgent care. I’ve heard of some doctors de-rostering patients who go to unaffiliated walk in clinics.
@@libbyannstew8775 that is what I am thinking.
The delays are indicative of a poorly functioning healthcare system in Canada. Without getting too political, it's clear that the current federal Government must assume a large portion of the blame. Indeed many pateints are showing up to the ED when in fact their ailments could easily have been handled by a PCP, but that seeminly rudimentary reason grows into a conundrum when 6 million Canadians don't have and can't find a family doctor.
To say there's a problem is a drastic understatement. Growing doctor patient loads and time restricted visits are meaningless and in fact would exacerbate the problem. The solution certainly won't be found in some agitated comments, but the fact remains the Government is dropping g the ball with Canadians healthcare. It's a heartbreaking scenario when we have good well meaning immigrants settling in Canada and then find the!selves searching endlessly for a doctor, that is spirit crushing.
Bottom line here is this... those with money get care one way or another, but if you don't have disposable income you go without getting proper care.
This system is broken in so many ways.
While I can appreciate the explaination I still think if you think you broke something go to Urgent Care not the ER. My last trip to the ER I saw 5 people who could hve been help at Urgent Care and helped faster there. Also if you are at a hospital on University campas (ie Western University) ALL students are told to go to the ER not Urgent Care. Either way I appreciate all that the doctors and nurses in all medical establishment do. Keep up the great work.
The info related to this subject couldn't have been skimmed over more thinly. Thank you for all this channel provides.
Thank you for important information 😂
but if they are not needing emergency services and only waiting for a transfer. why cant this same doctor go to the ER to tend to a new patient meantime? im sure there is a good reason im just curious
I waited 5 hours with level 9 pain recently. Is that long?
If you have a serious issue and someone has a minor issue that doesn’t even need a hospital that shouldn’t effect the weight time for who actually need to be there that’s why patients are triaged so yes is your in for something very minor you would have a long weight time
System is broken and the problem is all the medical staff that lost jobs due to not taking the covid shot
Nice try. In our facility very few people were denying Covid and staffing stayed static.
Not wishing to detract from the gravity of the subject matter with any flippancy, but is Dr Weening's right index finger a little bent/maybe arthritic at its tip? Just wondered. 🤔
My husband died the end of March from cancer. During his 5 month illness before his death, ee made 4 visits to various ERs. The sicker he got the faster he was seen which is a good thing! And the staff were always fantastic, no matter what time of day or night it was and how long we had to be there. Kudos to ER staff.. from Canada!
except for the people who are coming to the hospital instead of their primary care. there are shortages in nurses and doctors all over the usa. that is a fact. the nurses and doctors are burned out. and i hope that we are making a turn around now. that things are starting to fall into place. i hope this video is info that is the new incoming info for us to see that things are gonna get better. time will tell
Sounds like a claims department
Nice
You all put the care in healthcare. Need more like you in the USA.💙
If you eat proper human food and don’t take ANY vaccines you will live a healthy life!
Wrong (just part of it)
I am sure you will get inundated with stories, including mine.
I was in Alabama, in the center of the city, surrounded by hospitals.
I came down with a serious flu bug around 1 A.M. . I froze in the ER for over 2 hours. I came down with walking phnumonia in the ER. THEN, I was misdiagnosed after I corrected the staff. I KNEW I had walking pneumonia, but they stated that the xrays stated otherwise.
As I got up the next few days from the hotel room, I knew I was in trouble.
I could not breathe.
JUST as I had that thought, a call came in from the front desk.
It was the hospital. They had mis read my xrays. I DID have walking pneumonia.
I walked to the hospital right in the center of town, and was asked to SIT on an ER bed corner.
I was given medication, and when I got my bill from the ER, they wanted $2,000.00 for using the bed in the ER.
I fought that and won.
Just thought I would share and vent.
BTW.
I have to admit.
I was seen by a beautiful blonde, in the hospital when I first was admitted.
THEN,
seen by even a hotter blonde, who gave me my intravenous.
Just sayin.
The lack of homecare is a major issue. Both of my elderly parents had strokes and both times the hospital tried to send them home with no homecare plan started. Dad had a stroke, was sent home and less than 48 hours of being home still had no homecare and was back in hospital with stroke #2. The PSW started and either showed up without calling or didn't show up at all. It was really hard to manage. Family members are not equipped in most cases to deal with medical care.
US in our area free standing ER are part of answer, between doc in box and full hospital er.
Always be nice to medical personnel, police etc
Can't you either say emergency room or ER? Having never heard it called emerg, I did not understand what she was saying at first.
Love you guys
Yeah! I've also heard the ambulances refered to as several diff names
The emergency department is actually a department and not a room.
It’s the ED.
The addition of over 6 million immigrants in the past 10 years is overloading every element of Canada's infrastructure. Surely this has to be mentioned along with all of the other operational issues. The system is bursting with demand it was never designed to handle.
This is not an immigration/migration problem.
@@annarn6540 Adding millions of people into an already underserved infrastructure makes declining healthcare a mass immigration exacerbated problem. Also the tax negative immigrant flow (~ $35 billion Grubel/Grady) makes recovery fiscally impossible. Increasing debt and poverty is not a viable foundation for a robust health system or a resilient social safety net.
They always have been ever since I can remember,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Just this past week I was super-sick and had two ER visits in a span of four days. The first visit involved an ambulance and I went to hospital J. They saw me quickly, did a CT scan, and said "just a stomach virus". Discharge within a few hours. 3 days later I was still in severe pain, saw my Primary Care Doctor.... Who sent me straight to the ER! That was an 8 hour visit but I got a diagnosis that made sense, IV antibiotics and was sent home after 8 hours. But yah, the second hospital was CROWDED and my "pod' of emergency care was getting medical treatment in a public area. I got my IV in a closet. Literally. My second IV bag was put up while I was in the public area. No privacy.
Understandably, some waiting in the ER are feeling very unwell which obviously dictates their mood & impatience leading towards venting at ER staff. The most troubling behavior I have witnessed is the demonstration of entitlement by some who feel they are in need of treatment first before others. I commend the ER staff for their composure & efficiency in such a chaotic environment.
I really like your guys and I recently had an experience with our adult son having had seizure and being transferred to the ER via ambulance. My experience with the ER was, they were more interested in getting a urine sample thinking he was a drug addict then treating the symptoms of a seizure. They insisted on a overnight hospital situation where I stayed with him and then actually wanted him to stay a second night. They even tried to convince me not to stay with him; I would never leave a loved one that was so drugged up by the medical system alone. In regards to the second night, we refused and left. We are regular people and having the ER treat our son like he was doing drugs versus that he had a seizure was very, confusing and scary. Before we left, I requested what the results were of the urine sample they insisted on taking via catheter because they had so many drugs in our son's system that he couldn't even stand up and the urine sample was negative. This makes me really really angry with her medical system in general.
Was he actively seizing throughout the stay?
I don’t know how old your son is or where you are from but generally, the only person that can have access to lab results is the patient themselves, so mom asking for the results isn’t gonna happen.
And, part of the differential diagnosis for seizure disorder is to rule out medication as the cause so doing the urine drug screen is very important; in fact, if not done, it’s malpractice.
It sounds like they treated the seizure if his mind was altered by the medications they gave him.
In my community the long wait is caused by understaffing and the hospital's refusal to turn away patients that are not experiencing an emergency or that may only need urgent care. I've seen patients come in for a pregnancy test, because they are lonely and want attention or have soap in their eye. These things are not even urgent care issues and can be treated at home. Hospitals need to either add additional staff and rooms to their emergency dept, turn non-emergency patients away or make them wait until the more urgent patients are seen.
the health care has failed us in Canada. lack of funds and staff!
I call bullshit.. my child blow her knee out in the middle of the night and they kept her in the ER all night no doctor saw her or knew where her chart was. I had to take her to children hospital the next day and has been in a brace, out of work, and doing physical therapy. When she had another issue 2 weeks later I drove her straight to Children hospital and was admitted with that new issue. I'll never take my kids to local hospitals.
These hospitals are like cattle calls. None of these brats they hire have any empathy and it’s a complete joke. I’m being held as a prisoner in the battle for privatization and I can’t get a doctor and literally had my surgeon
ABANDON ME!! If you live in Ontario I encourage you to report the hospital to the patient ombudsman and privacy commissioner and the doctors /surgeons to the college of physicians and surgeons and report all nurses to the college of buses of Ontario. These morons need to be held accountable. Oh ya. Don’t go to the ER if you have a doctor for something that can wait. You entitled losers are clogging up the system. Oh ya, maybe old Ford shouted have not paid for a highway and fired nurses. You people are so out of touch with reality. Canada pays 58 billion in taxes on the debt and same for ALL OUR HEALTHCARE IN CANADA 🇨🇦 THIS COUNTRY IS BS
I can pretty much say that your daughters’s knee injury was a not an emergency. She was probably having a lot of pain. Yes, but nothing emergent about it.
The consolation prize for a long ER wait times is that you're not immediately dying. Bring a book, some knitting, chill out on your phone, whatever.
One thing is that so many people go to the Emergency room that really don't need to.
A good episode. Never take your pain out on those typing to help you. Seems obvious no?