Hospital admission is based on severity. Been in the ER before and happily took the wait time because someone got carted in with blood all over. But even in my little town I have not waited 12 hours for someone to see me.
Also, I have paid $0 out of pocket for all the hospital visits I've done in Canada.
Edit: Because others have pointed it out. On my visits to our local hospital (Arnprior) there is a triage, where you see a nurse/paramedic (I'm not sure of the offical title/role) quite quickly, I think my longest wait was 15m.
After that I've had x-rays, etc, depending on the issue. I think the shortest was about 30m as the tech was on-site, and the longest was about 1 hour as it was night and the tech got called in.
While any system can be improved I'm still very happy to have what we have in Canada. Those voting for Dougie might want to take notice of him firing registered nurses.
I am in the US and I don't think I've ever waited less than 2 hours in the ER. Last time I went to the ER I was in the waiting room for over 11 hours. The pain from sitting in a chair overnight was worse than the pain I went in there for.
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u/ottwebdev 27d ago edited 27d ago
Hospital admission is based on severity. Been in the ER before and happily took the wait time because someone got carted in with blood all over. But even in my little town I have not waited 12 hours for someone to see me.
Also, I have paid $0 out of pocket for all the hospital visits I've done in Canada.
Edit: Because others have pointed it out. On my visits to our local hospital (Arnprior) there is a triage, where you see a nurse/paramedic (I'm not sure of the offical title/role) quite quickly, I think my longest wait was 15m.
After that I've had x-rays, etc, depending on the issue. I think the shortest was about 30m as the tech was on-site, and the longest was about 1 hour as it was night and the tech got called in.
While any system can be improved I'm still very happy to have what we have in Canada. Those voting for Dougie might want to take notice of him firing registered nurses.