This was highly unethical. There is a minimum operational overhead to offering minimum care, including the availability of emergency equipment and staff. I have

This was highly unethical. There is a minimum operational overhead to offering minimum care, including the availability of emergency equipment and staff. I have a local ER I've visited twice this year and there's almost never any patients there in the middle of the night. But dozens of medical personnel and the building and all the medical equipment i could imagine are always there and ready for me when I need it, on demand, no questions asked. This is what the American medical system optimizes for. And it costs a lot of money.