A code orange at a Canadian ER

Essentially, almost every day in April, all the doctors in the hospital had to give a hand to the ER:

On every day but one in April, crowding prompted ER staff to declare a “code orange,” which sets other departments scrambling to accommodate emergency patients.

Ducharme says code orange is only declared when ER doctors don’t believe they can treat patients adequately.

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