Same place. VBGH on FC. Hopefully thats not the norm.

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>Wow... that's some wait. Which hospital was it?
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>Seven years ago we had some experience with the one on First Colonial (daughter slipped in the bathroom in a hotel, not even a bruise but she was in some shock so we called 911, just in case). They took our data three times (name address etc... they even had PCs on wheels for that) and she spent a full hour in a corridor waiting for a doctor to come. He eventually did, and gave her a ten second stethoscope over the T-shirt, there in the corridor, among all the noise. My bet is he could hear whether anything's wrong just about as well as I could detect a false note on the third violin heard over a phone on an airplane. The rest of his ten minutes were quite uneventful - the main event came later, when we got the bill. I had a sort of insurance, but the company was going down and that month wasn't paid for (which I heard later). Funny, though, when I started working, I didn't get any coverage for the first few months, because the scheduled meeting with the agent didn't occur until
> a few months later. One of our daughters had to pay her annual checkup (which was included in the coverage - that's actually why she took it, to get something for that money, and to make a point of insisting on preventive), and also had to pay some other time because "there wasn't enough accumulated payment for that year". Which means you get zero coverage until about end of February, but then it doesn't flow over into the next year. Etc etc...
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>Fingers crossed for your dad... I got worried about my parents this week, no emails for ten days, managed to get dad on his cell phone - it's just that the whole street will be offline for a week more, they're finally replacing their phone switchboard (brand new from 1971), they are the last corner of the city to get the network rebuilt. Whew.