Saskatchewan patients share the good and bad of emergency room care [Video]

All across Canada, emergency rooms are reaching overcapacity on a nearly weekly basis.

In Saskatchewan, the situation is no different as people prepare to spend hours in the ER waiting for care.

Rebekah Unger suffers from Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and chronic back pain. Around Christmas she started feeling pain so she went to Saskatoon City Hospital’s emergency room despite her nervousness.

“I couldn’t live like that so I had to go in knowing I was going to have to sit there,” Unger said on the emergency room.

“I sat there for five hours before finally seeing a doctor who asked me a couple of questions. They did no testing — gave me some narcotics and sent me on my way.”

She returned days later, this time for six hours before Unger says she was again sent home with no explanation for what’s wrong.

“There’s no positivity in leaving with no idea …