It's called triage. If you go in with a splinter you're going to have to wait behind the guy that came in after you with a piece of rebar through his skull.

Lots of people don't understand that it isnt a deli counter where you take a number and are called in order.

Many of these conservative "studies" compare wait times between Canadian booboos and American traumas without explicitly calling it out, and that's not a fair comparison.