The number of Canadians who visit emergency departments across the country only to give up and leave before they receive any care has increased more than fivefold, according to new data collected by CTV News.
The number of Canadians who visit emergency departments across the country only to give up and leave before they receive any care has increased more than fivefold, according to new data collected by CTV News.
If you’re leaving you don’t need to be there in the first place.
I went a couple months ago, waited 2 hours, and then was hospitalized for a week.
My girlfriend went 4 days ago. Waited 3 hours for stitches.
If you’re able to leave, you never should’ve come in the first place.
In a certain number of cases, but there’s also cases where you have symptoms which could go either way and you could be walking away to your own grave or greatly aggravating a condition that could have been minimized with prompt analysis and treatment.
Sure that wound will likely still heal with tape rather than stitches, that might be a bad sprain, that puking and blurred vision might just be migraine symptoms, and the problem moving your left arm might just be a pulled muscle from sleeping wrong.
Or, you might leaving and further stressing a fractured bone, poisoning, and a stroke.
Not everyone comes into the ER dripping blood or with a piece of rebar through their chest.