Some ER doctors here aren’t that much better. Just the other day one asked why parents brought their kid in who suddenly had two seizures and another one on the way to the ER. It was like they were wasting his time.
Someone I know was taken to the ER on a holiday weekend. He had severe pain in his shoulders and upper back. The ER nurse scolded him and his family for not waiting to visit the hospital till the weekend was over. He protested that his pain was not responding to pain killers and that he has had heart trouble before. After they pumped him full of morphine, which was not very effective, they ran some tests and were surprised to find that he was having several heart attacks. He had gone in early in the morning. They discovered the problem around early afternoon.