The Doctor Won’t See You Now

Hours-long wait times in emergency rooms aren’t just inconvenient. They can be deadly, and they’re the norm again.

Robert Roy Britt
Elemental
Published in
10 min readNov 3, 2021

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Last week, my wife was transported by ambulance to an Arizona hospital’s emergency department with a concussion. Her case being relatively urgent, she was ushered to the front of the line for observations and scans. Not…

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Robert Roy Britt
Elemental

Editor of Aha! and Wise & Well on Medium + the Writer's Guide at writersguide.substack.com. Author of Make Sleep Your Superpower: amazon.com/dp/B0BJBYFQCB