How's your Saturday going? Mine? I guess my esophagus has been eosinophilizing for a while and today was the day it decided to obstruct. Whee! (I'm ok, endoscopy done, experienced fentanyl and midazolam, and now recovering!)

* 6pm, ate something * that thing got stuck * Very stuck * So stuck that nothing i swallowed from sips of water to my own saliva went down * Eeeeevertthing came up * Nausea and vomiting for 2 hours * Odansetron, fentanyl, midazolam * Endoscopy by lovely resident + GI * All better

Canadian experience: * ER 630 * Triaged 640 * treatment room 710 * ER Doc 725, paged GI * Covering GI resident 745 * Super friendly GI doc came 800 * Endoscopy done by 830 * resting, going home 930 Part of my Universal Health Care: $0 to me, 3hr start to finish Thanks @VGHFdn

You're lucky you got seeing it all here we're being told not to go to the hospital or ER for anything unless it's covid-19 do there are mandates in many places that say if needed they will walk away from the patient in the middle of treatment. These are Physicians?

Really? So one isn’t to go to the ER for acute appendicitis? I’d love to read the mandate of you have a link.

Certainly not the case in Canada.