[Jtsummers]

> A person who can sit in a chair for 12 hours waiting didn't have an emergency. Instead, they were using the ER for non-urgent care.

Or the ER was crap. Like the time I waited 12 hours (because I had no choice, I needed a surgeon) to have my foot put back together.

[dekhn]

I had a similar situation (sitting in the ER absolutely needing immediate surgery at risk of death), but after a bit I called my parents, who called the surgeon, who saw me immediately (outside the hospital) and then immediately scheduled me for surgery back at the same hospital, all before I would even have been seen at an ER.