{"id":439842,"date":"2026-01-29T01:42:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T01:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/439842\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T01:42:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T01:42:30","slug":"a-travesty-long-time-er-physician-says-backlogs-in-system-causing-frustrated-workers-to-want-to-exit-health-profession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/439842\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A Travesty\u2019: Long-Time ER Physician says Backlogs in System Causing Frustrated Workers to Want to Exit Health Profession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/doctors-office-medical-exam-hospital-nlhs-generic-2.png\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"'A Travesty': Long-Time ER Physician says Backlogs in System Causing Frustrated Workers to Want to Exit Health Profession\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A long-time emergency-room physician says continued delays in getting patients admitted into hospital beds is causing widespread frustration among health care workers. <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Scott Wilson, who worked in emergency care for decades, says while staff are used to busy emergency rooms, the problem of patients being held in emergency while waiting for access to beds is bogging down the system  \u2013 and getting worse. <\/p>\n<p>He says he\u2019s worked in emergency rooms where over \u201c90 per cent of my beds are consumed with inpatients. So the beds that are designed to see the volumes of patients\u2026legitimately registering to be assessed by emergency room personnel, they can\u2019t be accessed, because all the beds are filled with inpatients. And that\u2019s what overcrowding is.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>He says until overcrowding is addressed in what he calls a very firm way, wait times will be negatively affected \u201cindefinitely.\u201d  He says frustrated health care workers are leaving because overcrowding is a symptom of blockages to access throughout the health care system. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s gotten to the point that I\u2019ve never seen it this bad,\u201d says Wilson. \u201cIt\u2019s also having a major impact on the people who provide care because they\u2019re just so frustrated with their jobs they want to exit the profession altogether, which is a travesty.\u201d  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; A long-time emergency-room physician says continued delays in getting patients admitted into hospital beds is causing widespread&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":["post-439842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}