My aunt had to go to the ER. Since her symptoms reported by the nursing home were not believed, (surprising since they have a doc and nurses), they were just watching. I got to watch the workings of a part of the ER and found it to be organized chaos. Luckily, she threw up for them and then they were convinced! Good thing. So, they had no idea what was causing it, and they were going to keep her. At that point she had been in the ER from 11PM to 5AM, the doc said she was “fast pathed” to a room and that it would take a few hours. So we went home to get some sleep and returned about 10AM. Surprise, she was still in the ER. Argh! She got to the room about 5PM. Wall clock time in the ER was 17 hours. How is that efficient? It certainly was exhausting.

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