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Man having heart attack waited 5 hours for diagnosis in overrun, understaffed ED<\/a>  NZ HeraldHospital ED five-hour wait for heart attack diagnosis breached patient care standards<\/a>  RNZHeart attack patient waited over four hours after triage error in crowded Wellington ED<\/a>  thepost.co.nzNick Mills: I will stop talking about ED failures when they stop happening<\/a>  Newstalk ZBWellington man suffered heart attack after four-hour emergency department wait<\/a>  Stuff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Man having heart attack waited 5 hours for diagnosis in overrun, understaffed ED  NZ HeraldHospital ED five-hour wait for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[89,11421,536,796,13973,269213,2082,42,2862,2241,43,1597,11422,40,38,41,39,5273,52],"class_list":["post-547973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-attack","tag-breached","tag-care","tag-diagnosis","tag-ed","tag-fivehour","tag-for","tag-headlines","tag-heart","tag-hospital","tag-news","tag-patient","tag-standards","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wait","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}