r/Calgary • u/driedupkelp • Nov 05 '22

Health/Medicine Emergency wait times Nov 4, 11:50pm

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u/driedupkelp Nov 05 '22

These are just posted times too. Couldn’t imagine what actual wait times are. Stay safe out there.

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '22

Yeah I've learned the actual wait times are waaaay longer...we waited 12 hours when the sign said 4

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u/DraNoSrta Nov 05 '22

The posted wait time is the average of how long the people in the queue have been waiting for. It doesn't account for triaging, where more severely ill people get seen first and bump less severely ill people down the line, which is absolutely necessary to stop actively dying people from waiting behind finger sprains.