Best health care in the world they say, Just go to the ER they say....

[Yo_Mama]

9. Winnipeg has the worst story. Over 30 hours.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/10/17/brian-sinclair-winnipeg-er_n_4115973.html

Winnipeg is in Canada. It's not as if overcrowded hospitals don't have this problem everywhere.

Here's an article which looks at the problem in the US:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/01/13/emergency.room.ep/

There are some links in it to various reports. It's very possible to die in an ER waiting room anywhere.

I took my husband with triple pneumonia to the only hospital available (it's a regional medical center, so supposedly "good&quot in GA more than a decade ago. He was grey and had a fever of over 104, and was intermittently delirious.

I had to threaten them with a malpractice suit to get them to take him in quickly. It was their fault, because they had seen him and discharged him two days before when he only had single or double pneumonia, but he also had severe diarrhea from food poisoning which had caused the pneumonia, and you can't treat a patient with oral antibiotics and pneumonia and diarrhea. When he first went to the ER on Sunday all they did was give him two prescriptions and discharge him the first time. I had been a thousand miles away in an ICU with my mother when he got ill.

Part of it's the insurance companies - sometimes they won't give permission to admit or treat.