Point 4.
The one time I attended A&E with chest pains I was hooked up to an EKG almost immediately. Once the doctor determined that, whatever was causing the pain, it wasn't my heart or respiratory system, I was hoofed back to A&E reception to wait for a break in the flow.

I didn't see anything wrong with that, at all. I wasn't in imminent danger of death, I'd brought a book with me, and the good doctor would get round to seeing me all in good time, after she'd dealt with the more urgent stuff. It all seemed perfectly sensible to me, and why people complain about that aspect of A&E mystifies me.
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 13:35, Reply)