A horrible experience. Intake nurses were just tal...

A horrible experience. Intake nurses were just talking for fifteen minutes while I waited, once she acknowledged me because I walked up to her she didn't ask any other questions than my date of birth and name. The woman who took my vitals was rude and dismissive. I was in the waiting room for 4+ hours while in severe pain that prescription medications couldn't help while people with a mild cough who got here after I did had already been seen. Heart monitor stickers were on the chairs, garbage, people passed out everywhere, some type of bodily fluid on the floor and lots of other nasty things. In the actual department everyone is stuffed in. Beds lining the halls and it takes forever to see the doctor they have in the department. Once I got in to a room I found out the intake nurse didn't listen to what my issue was and wrote down something completely different. I came in for a severe health issue that I had been told if I ever had those symptoms that I needed to go to the emergency room right away and be treated but the intake nurse wrote that I had a minor annoyance at best. They need a better system here or something. At this point I'd rather drive to Nipigon for their hospital. It makes me scared as someone with health issues knowing this hospital is my only option in an emergency. I have stayed home times where I probably should have gone to the hospital because I dread the treatment there.