CLEVELAND — Imagine sitting there, suffering in pain, and waiting to see a doctor. It’s happening in emergency rooms across Northeast Ohio. We’ve heard your complaints, so the News 5 Investigators dug through the data to find the worst ER wait times in our area.

Gretchen Gibson, 75, from Akron, went to bed one night in July not feeling great. By the time morning arrived, the pain had worsened.

“It was like a throbbing, constant pain,” said Gretchen.

Her husband, Jeff, thought it might be her appendix. So, they went to the emergency room at Cleveland Clinic Akron General.

THE WAIT WAS PAINFUL

They said that after sitting in the waiting room for an hour and a half, Jeff returned to the front desk.

“She’s in pain. Nobody’s coming out to see her. I said, 'What are we supposed to do?'” Je

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