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To determine who has the highest priority to see the dr first. That was the triage nurse and thats their job. They aren't high on my list but they're the closest we have here. A friend had issues with the care there too. Guess I didn't want to have a worse reaction from medication I am allergic to. I knew he was not happy that I refused his treatment. Then he told me they were going to give me a medication which if he looked on my chart he'd know I was allergic to, he argued that I should have it, I refused again and left with a Benadryl. He opened the curtain, said I was having an allergy attack. The nurse checked me over, the Dr never came near me and I layed there almost 2 hrs, by the time he came the hives were almost gone. Same thing happened to me at Wayne Memorial in Honesdale.