Patients come in already in distress, and waiting only makes it worse.
Wait time has nothing to do with this.
Which is why we're seeing hospital workers like Dr. Collins get assaulted.
Assaulted?
It was a little push.
Which we're gonna take seriously. We risk our lives coming to work here every day. What if that mother had brought a weapon?
We have metal detectors.
This is what happens when you keep all the hospital admissions stuck down here instead of properly staffing upstairs. I've got four patients waiting on ICU that have been here since before I got here, and it's already 1:00.
I can see that you're...
We've got four more waiting on psych. One of them's been here for a fucking week. So please, for the love of God, hire more nurses.
I'll come back later.
That's not gonna help anything.
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