Why do we wait so long in hospital emergency departments and for elective surgery?
- Written by The Conversation Contributor
Clinicians prioritise patients based on the urgency of their treatment. But there's more to it than that. painter dude/Flickr, CC BY-NDSome situations can drive even the most patient person to meltdown. Try sitting in an emergency department for four hours on a Friday night with an injured relative. Or waiting two months for heart valve surgery,...





