Twelve people on stretchers, including a stroke patient with a bleeding brain and a trauma patient transported by helicopter, were lined up in the entrance hallway at Manitoba’s largest emergency department on Sunday evening because no beds were available inside, a physician at the hospital said.
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Feeling fidgety in class? Go stomp, jump or hop down this school’s sensory hallway
In many Canadian schools, recess and phys-ed class may be the only activity students get in their day, but a school in rural Manitoba is trying to buck that trend with a Sensory Path in the main hallway.
How hallway medicine in ER contributes to misdiagnosis
Patients are more likely to be misdiagnosed or experience treatment delays when emergency rooms are so crowded that they receive care in a hallway, a survey of physicians suggests.
Churros, pranks, and hallway bobsleds: Here’s what Winter Olympic athletes get up to when they’re not competing
Getty Images Athletes at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang have all had to work hard. Qualification for the Olympic games requires years of dedication, training, and skill. So it might be easy to assume that while competitors are preparing for an event they adhere to a strict diet, work out in the gym, and […]
Opposition slams Ontario government over ‘hallway medicine crisis’
The opposition hammered the governing Liberals over hospital overcrowding during question period at Queen’s Park Tuesday, hours after an exclusive CBC Toronto story revealed that more than 4,300 patients received care in the hallways of Brampton Civic Hospital last year. CBC | Health News
Why Tyrion was creeping in the hallway for that pivotal Jon and Daenerys scene on ‘Game of Thrones’
HBO Warning: Spoilers ahead for “Game of Thrones” season seven finale. “Game of Thrones” presented what might have been the series’ most awkward sex scene to date on the season seven finale. As Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen finally gave into their lusts, Bran Stark narrated the love-making with exposition about how Daenerys is actually […]
Bleeding internally, ‘screaming in pain,’ Brampton woman spent 5 days in hospital hallway
Although she was bleeding internally and in “excruciating pain”, Jamie-Lee Ball spent five days in a hallway of Brampton Civic Hospital, on stretcher with no pillow and just three thin curtains between her and a busy public area. CBC | Health News