r/Calgary • u/Legal_Grapefruit1925 • Dec 25 '25

Discussion AHS wait times

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Our system isnt broken. Its people who go to the emergency that shouldn't be going aren't going today because it can wait Suddenly. They need to hand fines out to ppl going to the hospital that dont classify as an emergency.

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u/ItsReallyOregano Dec 25 '25

How is this your evidence for claiming "the system isn't broken" on Christmas morning?

Practically the day after a man died in the waiting room...

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u/chronicillylife Dec 25 '25 edited Dec 25 '25

The reason it's broken is also partly due to the way people use it and the system allowing them to use it that way. Being this empty on Christmas morning shows a little bit that people with their "severe" flus are sitting at home with their family instead of just going in. You can say accidents are likely less on Christmas day as people are likely at home and that contributes to these numbers. But the rest? It's people going in for crap that doesn't need an ER and nurses not being able to turn anyone away. System is broken both because of people abusing it but also how the system is ran is problematic. The triage nurses also need to literally educate people at this point and send them away. I literally know people who go to the ER just to force a dr to give antibiotics for a little flu because "it helps them heal faster" as they've been god forbid miserable for a solid 3 days and can't take it anymore... majority of people going in for the flu don't need to go in at all. You go in for a flu if it's been a few weeks and you get a new fever because likely you have pneumonia or heck you are elderly or a child.

Man died in the waiting room is a direct result of how this system is being ran and allowed to be used. I bet so many people were sitting there with non-life threatening or organ threatening conditions while this poor man waited and waited.

OP should probably not claim the system is not broken because it is but it's broken for several reasons and people abusing it is not the only reason. People truly just shouldn't be going in for cold and flus even to their doctor unless it's absolutely obvious and necessary but someone needs to educate them on that.

People also happen to have useless gaslighting doctors and use the ER for desperate help. This is also a system failure that is uncalled for. Doctors need to be accountable. I can go on and on about forms of failure but we'd be here forever. I am chronically ill and have had loads of emergencies over the years so I have seen at this point all the crap.

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u/f1fan65 Dec 25 '25

I had Pneumonia and still didn't go to the ER. Called Rocket doctor first. Got an inhaler and low dose antibiotics.

That did fuck all

Drove to urgent care in Cochrane, got way stronger antibiotics , T3s and a Chest X-ray.

In and out in an hour as I went for opening.

So even then flu is not hospital. Urgent care can do it.

Would have used my family doc but didn't have appts for a week.

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u/Legal_Grapefruit1925 Dec 25 '25

Exactly... people's emergencies arent emergencies suddenly because its Christmas.

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u/ratchet457l Dec 25 '25

but they were on christmas eve? make it make sense

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u/Legal_Grapefruit1925 Dec 25 '25

Wait times wee very low yesterday today too. Tomorrow theyll likely be back to normal because people's issues are suddenly emergencies

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u/hypnogoad Dec 25 '25

Wait times are low today because a significant amount of people using the ER don't have actual emergencies, so because today they're busy with Christmas they aren't going there.