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- treat | a ‘steady’ stream: OF -
_ patents suffering anything .
~ ftom miluor foot: injuries to
" serious:arm- infections, Yet,
on another eveulng there will ‘
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and death aituation or’ be as
‘gs. Vancouver’ General

emergency ward, 0 one thing |

” Nancy Belanger, along with brother : Steve,
watch with Interest asthe nurse applies another -

fs ‘for a sure, “they. mist cays .
‘help out,” ate added.

‘be prepared.

“We see a certain amount
of real emergency cases but

», the majority are minor,” ”
— said Rika Stephangon, nurse
Whatever the pace isin the, ‘at Mills. Memorial.

tt there is. something ‘ag

serio as a cardlic arrest,

‘On: weekend” evenings

“there’are’a fair number of:
drug and alcohol-related -
: injuries -
~ emergency, These. cases

‘brought ‘inte
average 3 to. 4 calls. a mgt,

also serves as an out, patient. clinic where work

of this nature is done.

layer fo the girl's. cast. The emergency ward

going ‘BB 5 high 2 ‘as ‘eight on

to. ‘some: nights. The war

‘knows a ‘lot of drinkers:-It

‘sees regularly on’ the ©

‘weekend: nights.”

“People ‘have: beein out

‘partying and -dtinking ‘all:

Right, some: get. into. fights.

‘others ‘sprain .thelr’ ankles -

cwalking down the stairs, on.

payday weekends it’s worse;
- “Right now: we're getting.

kids in‘ who've -hurt there
- selves at @xad parties,".said |
Ellen Bentham, a nurse-at
- the hospital. “Butin the past |

six months-it’s been a® lot.
quieter, I don’t. know maybe
the RCMP. have. been

cracking down but'a couple
. of payday’ weekends’ Have -

been ‘really quiet,” ‘said.
Elfen. Bentham,. another

- nurse at the > haapital

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Monday Friday- Tam, 9pm.

Occasionally ‘some ‘ot the. ‘~ a0," sald Slephanon, :
staff doeg find it bothersome :-

The initial examination of” ‘open

to: ‘treat someone with ‘a~ patients when: they-come “3

‘minor: ailment : that: could . emergency: ia done’ by ‘the -..
have waited till the morning -- nurses. Before 11.p.m, there .
when ‘they. could have seen.’ are several doctors on call in-

their doctor, especially if it's ; the hospital, ‘arid, they. will
busy: on‘another ward in the: pital ot

“the; time they-are ‘ un-:- the doctor on call: must ‘be
" derstanding, about.
- ssituation:: : Right the nurses on duty will
“he ‘always © ‘seems’ “thiat © assess the injury: and decide
‘whatéver is hurting - hurts -. whether it is necessary to the
worse: in .the. ‘middie ‘of the “ doctor-at home..: >.
‘night, it’s. an emergency to. “Sorte. ple ‘have the

‘pea
them go’ they: ‘come in,” said wrong ides’ that’ a° doctor:
(should be bere 24 hours a day,”
but it's a waste of human .
to ‘resources and money to have.

Bettham.). -:

“He's not the pubile’ 8 fault, .
many can't’ be bothered
“bake * time. off from work to. someone sit
. see thelr Gwi doctor and,-if and no one bes in,
‘they are. sick” after’ office -Bentham. “

all night
‘in? ‘said

- hours, a, there fae other place ~ Alsoafter 11pm. the doors:

“usually ‘come down to tréat:
- hospital at the time. Most of: the patient. After this Aime,

the” phoned at home. During the-'

"yl ‘before. meting in acd

uBually “if” Ate, 8, Teal

. emergency we ‘re warned

_ahead of time ang will ha Me
“the: ‘doors: open ‘and be:
ready,” ‘said. Stephanson, .
‘The’ emergency ward. is.
used for other purposes, ‘tt
sometimes serves 43 an out:
patient clinic, or for people.

* having’ minor -surgery. and

are ‘gnly in for. the day
recover there, before ‘going
home. .
Like other wards. i’ the.
hospital, the ‘emergency |
ard deals with a lot of in-
Jaren” from. logging’. ac- -
cidents and deals. with many
alcshel related injuries...

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