This is a hospital in a very high populated area and i’m pretty sure they only had one doctor on staff to cover emergency.

There’s another simple thing they could do to speed up admissions.

See a doctor/nurse immediately and have any BLOOD TESTS done right after seeing him.

I can’t tell you how many times we have gone to emergency, waited 3 hours to see a doctor, only to have him order blood tests that require you to wait another hour for the results, then even more time waiting for the doctor to deal with the results of the tests.

I am so sick off seeing how the Canadian healthcare system is in trouble, when in fact it’s not. It’s being run by lazy nurses who care more about how you interfere with their work day than anything else.

I was at one desk to ask a question of a nurse and she sat there and had a conversation with another nurse for 3 minutes before she acknowledged my presence.

What hospitals need is mystery shopper type patients, who can identify the problems and the problem staff and have it dealt with.

Man I could rant for hours and hours at the stupidity I’ve seen in hospitals, but the crux of the problem is bad nurses.

Too often a job in the Canadian medical system means you’ve got it made in the shade and there’s nothing you can do to get fired.

Nothing like waiting 4 hours to see a doctor who sees you for ten minutes. Makes you wonder just what exactly they are doing with their time.

The intake process is flawed.