I started to vomit blood: Why an ER nightmare is shaping how an N.B. man will vote [Video]

When Tim Kennedy thinks back to his emergency room experience this past summer, he knows he could have died.

The Fredericton-area man went to the ER at the Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital on Aug. 24 in extreme pain. After nearly 10 hours in the waiting room, he began vomiting blood, and he knew he needed help urgently.

“I approached one of the nurses to say that I was in pain. And I started to vomit blood. So she came out and she put an IV in my hand,” he recalled.

“And she said that she would talk to the doctor. And probably about half an hour later, I went and asked what was happening … and they had said the nurse that was looking after me had left her shift.”

To make matters worse, patients in the waiting room were informed that there had been a major car crash, …