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Don’t let anyone fool you into thinking the US has much faster ERs or appointments.
I drove someone to the ER last year with a massively swollen neck and was burning up. We didn’t see a doctor for at least four hours.
We finally saw someone and they were like oh dear let’s see if there’s a room available.
They found a room and did the MRI but the specific surgeon who could do the operation wasn’t available. They wanted to send my buddy on a goddamn ambulance to a hospital two hours away. He was so upset because all he could think about was how much the MRI was and how much the ambulance was going to cost. I tried to get him to let me drive him there but he just wouldn’t let me.
Every single business is purposely running a goddamn skeleton crew from a Walgreens to a hospital
I fucking hate the "Average ER Wait Time" signs outside of hospitals. Most of the time, this measures time you wait between entering the door and your information being entered into the system. It rarely means the amount of time of wait between when you are triaged to when you are seen by a healthcare professional, which can be hours.
That's a thing? I fucking hate that those even exist!