[PAR35]

Ontarians typically waited one to four hours in the province's emergency rooms over a recent one-year period, although wait times in some larger cities stretched past nine hours, according to a new study.

I would be surprised if averages for similar sized hospitals in the US were much different.

[bamahead]

It's not. I've waited over 2 hours at least twice in the last 10 years.

Not that I'm accident prone!

[Antioch]

During one cold snap a few years ago I broke an ankle, and waited in agony for 8 hours for my 10 minutes with a doctor in Mt. Sinai in Toronto. The strategy these days is, if you have to go to emerg, you set your alarm for 3-4 am and go to an outlying hospital. Our heath care system is circling the drain...