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No need to rely on a leaked report - health care workers have been sounding this alarm for years - and especially the past few months. This is the worst I have seen in my 19 years in emergency medicine. So why is this happening? 1/
Inflow >> Outflow. #s of patients waiting for transfer from our hospital to a LTC (full), repatriation back to a hospital in their home region (full), or to home (no home care available) FAR EXCEEDS #s of patients waiting in the ED for a bed on the ward 2/
Yet those waiting fill all the ED beds as beds on the ward are full. We play ED "musical beds" in order to assess patients and often care for new patients in suboptimal spaces - hallways, waiting rooms, quiet-ish corners. The inflow will always continue - we do not close. 3/
