The family of a Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., man who shattered his leg Sunday, then spent four days on a stretcher in the hallway of a small-town hospital, demand to know why paramedics took the 76-year-old to a facility without an operating room.
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Ron Prickett has spent days in excruciating pain on a stretcher in a small-town hospital's hallway, waiting for a bed to open in London, Ont., so surgeons can repair his shattered leg. 'What century is this? This is insane,' the 76-year-old says of a health system in turmoil.