[engrpat]

To answer your question: Two days before Christmas my wife injured her knee. We went to the local emergency facility, knee in a ice pack, and waited 4 hours to be seen and actually didn't get out for a total of 7 hours. The waiting room had I would say 15-18 waiting to be seen along with families. Of that there were 2 English speaking people that we encountered. Odds say the others really shouldn't have been there.

[riri]

Where do you live? I have a friend who brought a teenage son in for a fracture or similar injury, she was there 22 hours. But, I am in Arizona.

[spectre]

Thanks. It begins...and will only get worse, I fear.

sw