Emergency room waits

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by trilinearmipmap

Oh and incidentally waiting 2-1/2 hours with chest pain and shortness of breath represents a failure of the ER's triage system. You might have had a collapsed lung, people with potentially life threatening conditions are supposed to be seen immediately while the others wait.

ah but I didn't have shortness of breath, just pain in my broken rib when I took anything but a shallow breath.. they did ask me if I was experencing shortness of breath and I replied no, I am just breathing shallow so it doesn't hurt as much. so I don't fault anyone fo rthe amount of time I waited.

Steve