I’ll Take “Things I’ll Never Understand” for $1000, Alex

Things I just don't get:

1. Boarding a chest pain patient in the ED for 8 hours, when there are open ICU beds at your own facility, as well as at the larger hospitals an hour away.
2. Scheduling an angiogram for one of those chest pain patients, at a non-interventional cardiac cath labs, at 6:30 pm on a weekday.
3. Non-interventional cath labs, period.

There's nothing like packaging up a very sick patient and telling him to bear with you and try to be patient while you hustle him to the hospital he should have gone to in the first place.

If wait time is the biggest factor in your decision-making process, you're looking for a restaurant, not emergency medical care. "Faster seen" does not always equal "better care," folks.