During a recent visit to my local hospital because my father was having severe abdominal pain, I was astonished by the amount of time they left him in the waiting room groaning and crying out because of his pain. They hospital staff could have cared less, even though there was hardly anyone in the emergency room.. Looking back on a recent article I had seen about a lady who had died waiting in the emergency room while the doctors, nurses and hospital staff were oblivious to the urgent attention needed for some patients just because they opt’ed not to take an ambulance to the hospital doesn’t mean they couldn’t have and are not sick enough to recieve immediate care. Sad to say she had passed away in the emergency room and was left there on the floor for hours on end. Who allows the hospital staff to behave in such a manner? I can understand being de-sensitized after seeing so much death and sick individuals, but aren’t they there to save lives and at least make people comfortable while they wait? I am disgusted with the way the health care system is in its current state and can only imagine how it will be when we have a public health care system.