The population is rising, the amount of elderly is increasing, and healthcare feels an increasing strain each and every year. As numbers grow, more people demand healthcare, and the employee base is not there to accommodate their needs.
In CNN’s article, “How to get help in a hurry in the ER,” reporter Elizabeth Cohen discusses how the wait time in emergency rooms have risen in the past half a decade. “According to a report out this week, the average total waiting time in a U.S. emergency room in 2008 was four hours and three minutes, a 27-minute increase in nationwide average wait times since 2002,” she writes.
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