SOP for emergency rooms.
I recently had to go to one of our local er’s. After 1 1/2 hrs I left and did a walk in to my doctor’s office. This er used to have an urgent care connected to it and ran very well but they shut the urgent care down.
The er was full of people socialing, hitting the vending machines, and going in and out smoking. In other words there was probably 3 people in there where it was an actual emergency.
I got a follow up call from the hospital a couple of weeks later and I told the guy why I left. He said they see 150 people a day in the er and probably 90% of them shouldn’t be there so they are thinking about reopening the urgent care.