Emergency departments ALL use a triage system. If you turn up with acute abdominal pain, you will NOT be made to wait for hours. If you turn up with a sprained ankle, you might have a very long wait though. I once had to wait 7 hrs for an x-ray and tetanus shot after stepping on a rusty nail, which I had no problem with because the people who were prioritised ahead of me had issues like acute chest pain, or pissing blood.
As the story says, they transferred him to another hospital for the surgery, so they would not have been waiting for a bed to open up (if they were going to transfer him anyway).
Story stinks like a bucket of fish.
Emergency departments ALL use a triage system. If you turn up with acute abdominal pain, you will NOT be made to wait for hours. If you turn up with a sprained ankle, you might have a very long wait though. I once had to wait 7 hrs for an x-ray and tetanus shot after stepping on a rusty nail, which I had no problem with because the people who were prioritised ahead of me had issues like acute chest pain, or pissing blood.
As the story says, they transferred him to another hospital for the surgery, so they would not have been waiting for a bed to open up (if they were going to transfer him anyway).
Story stinks like a bucket of fish.
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