{"id":4246,"date":"2024-01-08T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4246"},"modified":"2024-01-10T03:12:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T08:12:06","slug":"every-bed-is-full-saskatoon-doctors-at-a-loss-in-the-face-of-jam-packed-ers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/every-bed-is-full-saskatoon-doctors-at-a-loss-in-the-face-of-jam-packed-ers\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Every bed is full\u2019: Saskatoon doctors at a loss in the face of jam-packed ERs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency room physicians in Saskatoon are becoming all too used to repeated apologies to patients for a system they say isn\u2019t functioning as intended.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. James Stempien says every shift presents a new set of challenges that rarely existed five to 10&nbsp;years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than showing up to an emergency room, seeing a doctor and then being admitted to an appropriate ward of the hospital, more and more patients are being admitted and treated in the emergency room, linen rooms or hallways because there is nowhere else for them to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency room physicians in Saskatoon are becoming all too used to repeated apologies to patients for a system they say isn\u2019t functioning as intended.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. James Stempien says every shift presents a new set of challenges that rarely existed five to 10&nbsp;years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than showing up to an emergency room, seeing a doctor and then being admitted to an appropriate ward of the hospital, more and more patients are being admitted and treated in the emergency room, linen rooms or hallways because there is nowhere else for them to go.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/every-bed-is-full-saskatoon-doctors-at-a-loss-in-the-face-of-jam-packed-ers\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Every bed is full\u2019: Saskatoon doctors at a loss in the face of jam-packed ERs<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,770,799,23,826,827,362,828,825,829],"class_list":["post-4246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-emergency-room-closures","tag-emergency-rooms","tag-hospitals","tag-regina","tag-royal-university-hospital","tag-saskatchewan","tag-saskatchewan-health-authority","tag-saskatoon","tag-st-pauls-hospital","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4248,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246\/revisions\/4248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}