But hospital records show that instead of seeing a doctor right away, he waited more than eight hours.
That's pretty "normal", but not in such a situation where urgent care is needed. Even the hospital noted that most patients at his triage level would be seen within 15 minutes. Someone's in trouble here.
Finlay, who was eventually diagnosed with pneumonia, sepsis and hypoxia, suffered cardiac arrest that afternoon.
He would have had symptoms well before being taken to the ER, so I wonder why the family waited so long to have him checked out.
At his age, pneumonia isn't often a cause for concern, especially not in Canada (death is like 1:100,000 in 15 to 49 year olds!).
The hospital may argue that he had other health issues compounding this problem, and it would have been too late for him, even if urgent care was given right away (which they should have done anyway!).
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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ontario-teen-death-emergency-room-wait-finlay-van-der-werken-oakville/That's pretty "normal", but not in such a situation where urgent care is needed. Even the hospital noted that most patients at his triage level would be seen within 15 minutes. Someone's in trouble here.
He would have had symptoms well before being taken to the ER, so I wonder why the family waited so long to have him checked out.
At his age, pneumonia isn't often a cause for concern, especially not in Canada (death is like 1:100,000 in 15 to 49 year olds!).
The hospital may argue that he had other health issues compounding this problem, and it would have been too late for him, even if urgent care was given right away (which they should have done anyway!).