Each reader will have to decide how much concern this case should cause. Jamie-Lee Bell was taken to Brampton Civic Hospital with stomach pains. It appears she was diagnosed and treated promptly, the hallway notwithstanding. No one will say it is fun to be forced into a hallway by overcrowding. But it is a common scene in hospitals everywhere. That’s because emergency rooms reach their capacity all the time, no matter how big they are.
