It’s almost a given that patients who arrive at the emergency room who aren’t in imminent danger of dying can wait hours before they see a doctor, especially in large cities.
“The hospitals I trained at were very often crowded to situations where it no longer felt safe,” said Dr. Benjamin Sun, a professor of emergency medicine in the OHSU School of Medicine. “This experience has been reported by folks all over the country.”
But it doesn’t have to be that way. Sun set about finding…
It’s almost a given that patients who arrive at the emergency room who aren’t in imminent danger of dying can wait hours before they see a doctor, especially in large cities.
“The hospitals I trained at were very often crowded to situations where it no longer felt safe,” said Dr. Benjamin Sun, a professor of emergency medicine in the OHSU School of Medicine. “This experience has been reported by folks all over the country.”
But it doesn’t have to be that way. Sun set about finding…