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My recent experience with Houston ER’s has been less than satisfactory.

Apparently there is also some law that prevents an ER from telling you over the phone if there will be a long wait.

I have also been told that in many cases the people who are receiving the attention are homeless people “who know their rights”.

I had a Houston Police Officer who was providing armed security at the Med Center ER I was at, kindly suggest to me after an hour of seeing my son in extreme pain from a kidney stone, that a suburban hospital ER was only a 30 minute drive away and that would be far quicker than continuing to wait where I was.

We took his advice, but even when we got there and I asked if there would be a long wait “we cannot give out that information” . But they ended up seeing him immediately.

And we don’t even have socialized medicine yet.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/h ... 125225.php

Dead patient was unmonitored and found in ER bathroom.

Had been waiting 24 hours for care.

https://www.click2houston.com/news/loca ... 45-minutes

Waited 30 to 45 minutes collapsed from blood loss from bad cut from glass.

Gory photos.