[GailA]

Last time I went to the ER I spent FIVE hours there before being seen. It took them another couple of hours to set up x-rays. I was exhausted by the time I left. All I got was a script for pain med..which I promptly tore up. Can't take the crap because of side effects. Told them that, idiots don't listen, when they think they know it all.

[Bobibutu]

"Last time I went to the ER I spent FIVE hours there before being seen."

There is a hierarchy of criteria as to who is seen first based on symptoms. If memory serves me "unconscious with a head injury" goes immediatly to the head of the line no matter how long someone else has been waiting.

It's quite a laundry list - abdominal pain is not in the top 10 - I think it's way down there like 123 or something.