THIS is why you wait in the emergency room when you go without an emergency. THIS is why you had to wait for your water to be refilled. THIS is why you had to wait for your discharge papers, meds, blanket, any other material object. THIS is the room you DON’T want to be in, and the room you need to be praying for, and hard. THIS is what it takes to save a life, which is what you come to us for. You are sick. You are tired. You are uncomfortable. We know. Stop bashing your healthcare providers for not “being on time with meds,” and “taking too long for a water refill.” Because we are trained to drop all of those things in a blink of an eye and save THIS person’s life. You wait because you can. We rush to them, because their chance of survival decreases every second we are not at their side.