I ' m from BC . If you ' re complaining about er wait times consider for a second that acute needs have to be met first . I had a 4 hr wait to get my foot stitched up once . Small price to pay knowing every single heart attack and stroke victim is being taken care of . It ' s our policies on private clinics that irks me here because if managed properly they could provide some affordable relief to the emergency system . Their intakes are capped as are their hours . We should be investing heavily in using these resources to ease the burden on our emergency systems , however doctors who work in these clinics treat it like a meat shop . In and out as fast as possible . According to the doctor who stitched me up , he said I ' m way better off having an er stitch me up than a clinic doctor , because many clinic doctors don ' t frequently stitch up patients .