Hospital protocols may be
changing, but too slowly for Doreen Wallace, who fell in the lobby of
the Greater Niagara General Hospital in Ontario in October and broke her
hip. Though it was less than 150 feet from the lobby to the emergency
room, hospital personnel, following rules, instructed her to call an
ambulance to take her around to the ER, though the nearest such
ambulance, in the next city, did not arrive for 30 pain-filled minutes.
Hospital officials said they would handle things better in the future.
[Toronto Star, 10-18-2011]
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