You’re right about that. Our ER that took my mom’s ins. is a block and a half away.
It should never have been such a long wait. Once she got there and answered all their questions, etc... she still had to wait, and wait!!
THEN they did the blood work and never returned to us for 3 hours .... They had to do it over because it was ‘misplaced’ and we were there until 11:30
Some people are ga ga about the idea of Government ‘assistance’.... BUT, they are just razzle dazzled by that magic word ‘free’
I was talking about this with ER people a few weeks ago when I was not having a heart attack (ear infections can give scary symptoms). One of the frustrating things about being in an ER is the less likely you are to die the further down the priority list you go on EVERYTHING. Processing your blood tests gets moved down, telling you your results gets moved down, processing your exit paperwork gets moved down. It’s the way they NEED to work, because there are people there who might die without care RIGHT NOW, but it really sucks for the person not about to die.