This is the second time in 3 months my elderly fat...

This is the second time in 3 months my elderly father was brought to emergency by ambulance. Both times he is left on a stretcher for over 24 hrs in an emergency hallway. This is obviously a normal expectation of our health system. There are actual numbers on the walls in the hallway so they can keep track of the patience being left in hallways.
Have you ever been sick and just wanted to sleep in a dark room? Seems like a torture tactic to keep them in a crowded, bright, noisy, hallway for 24 hrs. But the staff look at us like we are unreasonable with our expectations. Of a bed to lay and some privacy during our weakest time.

Patience screaming for help and because as a somewhat normal and empathic person I flag a nurse to help a stranger in need, I get caught off before I finish my sentence and told, "it's not my patient.
So now the patient has soiled herself and I stand witness to her embarrassment as she makes eye contact with me.

This all seems crazy, but also very normal of you work in the emergency.

And the paramedics that brought him here said this was the best option. So I guess I should just accept that this is what our world class health care is. Apparently everywhere else is worst???