06-12-2022, 01:52 AM
Man, 13 hour wait to see a doc in the ER? That is all kinds of messed up.
For my hubby’s recent trip to the ER and four days in the hospital, he got seen pretty quickly. By the time I got to the ER, he had been there about an hour before I was allowed to go in.We waited about another hour and a half before they got him into a room. The ER doc told me there five other people waiting to be admitted to a room and it would probably be several hours wait for those people. Hubby was in pretty bad shape when he got in, so he was the first one to get admitted to a room. The doc actually stated that it wasn’t so much covid for the wait times, as in our local area, there are nasty gastrointestinal things going around that are putting people in the hospital severely dehydrated. So I guess it depends.
I’d advise anyone thinking of going to the ER, make sure it is seriously an emergency. Otherwise you may be cooling your heels in the ER for a lengthy wait. If you can drive yourself to the ER, it probably isn’t an emergency. When I had appendicitis, there was no way I was in any condition to drive, and an ambulance took me to the hospital. After they did an MRI and saw my appendix was close to rupturing within less than an hours I was in emergency surgery.
For my hubby’s recent trip to the ER and four days in the hospital, he got seen pretty quickly. By the time I got to the ER, he had been there about an hour before I was allowed to go in.We waited about another hour and a half before they got him into a room. The ER doc told me there five other people waiting to be admitted to a room and it would probably be several hours wait for those people. Hubby was in pretty bad shape when he got in, so he was the first one to get admitted to a room. The doc actually stated that it wasn’t so much covid for the wait times, as in our local area, there are nasty gastrointestinal things going around that are putting people in the hospital severely dehydrated. So I guess it depends.
I’d advise anyone thinking of going to the ER, make sure it is seriously an emergency. Otherwise you may be cooling your heels in the ER for a lengthy wait. If you can drive yourself to the ER, it probably isn’t an emergency. When I had appendicitis, there was no way I was in any condition to drive, and an ambulance took me to the hospital. After they did an MRI and saw my appendix was close to rupturing within less than an hours I was in emergency surgery.