I am exhausted and the day isn’t even over.  I had to take my wife to the emergency room this morning because she fell and sprained her ankle.  Luckily, it wasn’t a life threatening problem as it took them two hours to see her.  Okay, you are saying that they were just swamped with more pressing emergency. Nope, I would have understood that, but there were no other patients.  No one in the emergency room. No one had been in the emergency room for over 10 hours.  No one had been admitted in 26 hours.  This had to be the slowest day at any hospital on the planet.  I mean I would expect maybe a woman in labor, some accident victim, sick child, or something, but the place was dead.  Even the nurse commented how dead it was. 

But it still took two hours just to admit my wife, and we have insurance so that wasn’t a reason for delay.

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