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Number of Canadians who give up and leave ERs over wait times has increased fivefold
(www.ctvnews.ca)
this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2023
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If you're leaving you don't need to be there in the first place.
I went a couple months ago, waited 2 hours, and then was hospitalized for a week.
My girlfriend went 4 days ago. Waited 3 hours for stitches.
If you're able to leave, you never should've come in the first place.
In a certain number of cases, but there's also cases where you have symptoms which could go either way and you could be walking away to your own grave or greatly aggravating a condition that could have been minimized with prompt analysis and treatment.
Sure that wound will likely still heal with tape rather than stitches, that might be a bad sprain, that puking and blurred vision might just be migraine symptoms, and the problem moving your left arm might just be a pulled muscle from sleeping wrong.
Or, you might leaving and further stressing a fractured bone, poisoning, and a stroke.
Not everyone comes into the ER dripping blood or with a piece of rebar through their chest.