I mean waiting time is sort of irrelevant here if we’re not told what the patients ailment was. In a triage scenario operating in an emergency department, you’d expect the lad with a splinter to be hanging around for a while.
If you go to the emergency room and survive 4 and a half days without being seen you didn’t need emergency care.
If you can wait 4.5 days it wasn’t an emergency.
I once made the mistake of going to the ER for stitches. Waited 10 hours, and by then it was too late so I have a huge scar now. While I understand ‘well then it’s obviously not an emergency’ it also may not have been something that could wait a week, or even 2, for a gp appointment. What we really need are more urgent care centres.
There’s a lad in another thread claiming doctors should be paid the same as a Dublin bus driver. And we wonder why brain drain continues to be a thing in this country while we wait in an emergency department for 4 days.
If I hurt my arm or sprained my ankle and it hurts like a bollix, swollen and might be broken, not sure, I can either go to the emergency department or stay at home because there is nothing in between up here.
For anyone not arsed to look into this, it happened in Northen Ireland.
“non-urgent callers to the ambulance”
Why are they calling an ambulance if their not urgent.
Mate was in A&E in Naas at the weekend. 20 hour wait. Truly crazy.
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I mean waiting time is sort of irrelevant here if we’re not told what the patients ailment was. In a triage scenario operating in an emergency department, you’d expect the lad with a splinter to be hanging around for a while.
If you go to the emergency room and survive 4 and a half days without being seen you didn’t need emergency care.
If you can wait 4.5 days it wasn’t an emergency.
I once made the mistake of going to the ER for stitches. Waited 10 hours, and by then it was too late so I have a huge scar now. While I understand ‘well then it’s obviously not an emergency’ it also may not have been something that could wait a week, or even 2, for a gp appointment. What we really need are more urgent care centres.
There’s a lad in another thread claiming doctors should be paid the same as a Dublin bus driver. And we wonder why brain drain continues to be a thing in this country while we wait in an emergency department for 4 days.
If I hurt my arm or sprained my ankle and it hurts like a bollix, swollen and might be broken, not sure, I can either go to the emergency department or stay at home because there is nothing in between up here.
For anyone not arsed to look into this, it happened in Northen Ireland.
“non-urgent callers to the ambulance”
Why are they calling an ambulance if their not urgent.
Mate was in A&E in Naas at the weekend. 20 hour wait. Truly crazy.