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Originally Posted by djchameleon
I've heard Canadians complain about long waiting times at ER. So it is just a case by case basis and BD seems to luck out.
Also is it that violent/accident prone in your area that so many high priorities are coming in TH?
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No moreso than anywhere else. As everywhere, drink plays its part and you'll find a lot of those coming in are blitzed or high. Also, we have a large-ish East European immigrancy and they tend to apparently settle perfectly simple arguments not with words or a punch or kick but with knives, screwdrivers or, in one case, a smashed mug...
It will of course be busier at the weekend, when everyone seems to think it's ok to go crazy in town just because you've spent five days either at work or hanging around street corners. Then there's the junkies, plenty of them. As Steph says, emergency patients first sure, but ffs my sister had a pain in her chest and her arm ws numb and it was still hours before a doctor came to see her. That could have been a heart attack (although they did sort of rule that out both in the ambulance and triage): I don;t want to see her as yet another statistic where they say oh we thought she was ok so we're sorry she died. Happens rather a lot here, thank you Fne Gael and Labour, our wonderful coalition government and your constant savage cuts in the health service while you ****ers all go private...