WE DON'T NEED CHAIRS IN THE ER "waiting room"
WE NEED....BEDS!!!
If we are going to be forced to spend this much
time... and each time under the same no excuses conditions
something has to be done for the comfort of the patients.
IT IS INHUMANE to be forced to WAIT for this long....EACH TIME!

A) The government should DO ALL OF WHAT IS NECESSARY to AVOID those long waits
i.e. AT LEAST 3 doctors in the hospital at all times: one for the ambulances, one for the ER waiting room one...for the rest of the hospital!
OR
B) DO ALL OF WHAT IS NECESSARY to MAKE SURE we do not suffer more and get
rid of those average 15-20*** hours punishment forced to SIT on a chair!
" Provide beds " if we are going to SLEEP in the waiting area...

WE are no better than third world countries...in some aspects.

24 + hours in ER... "waiting room" is more than enough
to make you even "sicker" than when you came in...

Portions of lives I had a glimpse at.

Sharing some emotions,
here is a tiny mosaic of some feet and hands
I saw passing by or shared a moment with
while doing the main activity in ER: WAIT IN PAIN.
Sitting outside or inside, still stucked there.
In pain, junk food all over the place if you are hungry, and you will...
Big neon lights on, suffering more than when you arrived because...forced
to sit STILL for HOURS at a time.
Who needs prisons when we have these types of ER "waiting forever" rooms...
Just send prisoners here and let us use their cells, at least we can sleep!
annoying loud television forced on us, and some nurses with an attitude...

Some images in that long period of time made me forget i was there
while others...left no room for imagination.

We developed a supportive system among us;
this is also part of human nature, for some of us.
We tried to reassure ourselves and each other.
Showing compassion from some, indifference from others…

Looking around, stories take shape in our minds, we don’t dare to ask.
Sometime it is obvious, other times, not at all.

Out of privacy and respect, I just took images of some feet and hands
that I was very lucky to capture. So many other images will remain in my head.
It is painful to be in pain at the ER...forever waiting room with so much discomfort.
It is INHUMANE to wait this long without being taken care of...

It is so stupid AND inhumane of our governments to let us rut in pain
an average of "20 HOURS" in the ER,
sometimes with dangerous health conditions, wasting so much precious time...
and definitely ENDANGERING what should be the most precious gift we have: LIFE.

THEY do not wait in line like this...our government people... Not at all.
Deux poids....deux mesures.

The handicapped and the misfits are not all in the ER...

But this is another page of my own history
enriched by the experience of the moment...because i choose to see it that way.
Better than the alternative...

*** UPDATE 26 mai 2009: NOW with our extraordinary unfit "Jean Charest" government,
the waiting time is not decreasing but...increasing.
The already horrible minimum 15-20 hours of waiting in any ER
has now passed to almost 40 hours in some places...
I don't want to know more,
i need ACTION from our irresponsible elected "fine" members of our community
those who have the "power". I wonder power of what...
Self-interests? Finding ways to become richer on the back of the poorer?
Best medecine for the ones who can pay and leftovers for the ones who can't?
This is where we are heading full speed... Thanks to Charest and his cherishes elite.
I will say it again, we are going more and more towards the feodal era,
where the little people just serve the big ones and where ignorance is not really
something they want to get rid off, au contraire...
Knowledge is freedom, not the contrary.
I know enough to know i know close to nothing...
Lots of room to improve.
This is a scary reality...and we continue to sleepwalk...
until we can no longer walk at all.
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Thank You Eldar... I like the way you sum this up:
Eldar Kadymov gallery - ER.... Testing patience and....patients. PM reply | hide | delete 20-Nov-2009 15:10:26
I vote for everything you said here with both hands up, LOL. The poor medical care in this country is just a part of the problem, unfortunately for all of us- small people who feed Canadian political system with bonzos getting richer every day. Here are just to nmae the few quirks, but they are absolutely outrageous; goverment control over a distribution of alcohol, tobacco and gasoline ( this is the only country in the Western world which has this ), 2 weeks of vacation ( when politicians have 3 months ), highest level of taxes than elsewhere ( when politicians are enjoying no taxaion at all ), no opportunity to get advanced medical treatments & medicaions, 40 hour plus working week ( when politicians go to military hospitals for special care), no retirement protection and pension plans like in the rest of civilized world ( politicians get almost 100% of their salary as retirement bonus ), no employment centres which would care to find a job for you, inflated spendings on so-called community centres ( politicians need to keep them to get the etnic votes ), country is separated by so-called multiculturalism whereas each community lives by its own rules and values, mediocre & corrupted jurisdiction system protecting the rights of rich, almost bandit-like police force which wouldn't serve you at all in case of need, tons of crazy restriction laws ( must have winter tires, cannot bring booz across provincial borders, must clean your drive way during the winter, 100 km/hour speed on the highways etc. etc. ), no child care sponsored by goverment, I can go on and on, LOL. It would be interesting to see if you expand your gallery while taking one of those examples I provided :-) ? BV
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Food for thoughts Eldar ;) - Merci