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by saiya-jin
1609 days ago
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Yes its very common even in richest places. Case point #2 - Geneva, Switzerland has the biggest public hospital in whole country (HUG). They employ around 10k personnel overall, and Geneva is relatively small city (they call it the smallest metropole for a reason). There is no shortage of money or high tech equipment. But if you came pre-covid during say weekend night and you were not clearly about to die, 10+h waiting time in emergency was not unheard of (wife was serving there for some time as doctor, those folks deserve some proper respect). Simply overwhelmed, not enough staff comprised mostly by junior doctors. Now they are properly good in diagnosing whether your excruciating pain is life-threatening or not, but it must suck big time to be on patient's side. This is by far the biggest emergency in whole canton. Any private clinic or smaller medical centre will send serious cases straight there. Its not something discussed frequently but that's just how things are, in one of the richest and well-organized countries in whole world. Don't expect much better experience if you have bad luck with timing. |
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That means, I had to wait only a short time once, but that was after a dog bite to my face and it just looked horrible with blood all over it.
But the next time, with an deep open wound in my leg, which was actually way more dangerous, I had to wait quite some time, before they even checked.