A relative has been sitting for four hours in an Inland Northwest emergency room waiting room with her daughter, who has pneumonia. The wait is long, so she is texting us updates on emergency room conversations.

Here's one: "The people next to me are three adults and two babies. The three adults are coordinating their stories to get oxycontin. One will say a toothache. Another woman is telling another that she has six kids but CPS has taken four of them. Her (two) kids are 3 and 4 and so cute! Her husband is taking anger management classes. They are bragging about their DUIs.  I am going to tell the Dr. when we go back to the room."

The relative did tell the nurse and in a later update said: "She said they do not give out narcotics and people like them are in the system. They said they wouldn't leave here with narcotics. They can spot them."

Does this kind of report make you sad, angry, frustrated, all of the above?

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