2 /5 Eric Staut: I arrived at the ER at about 12:30 PM for a possible TIA (on my Drs advice). Check-in was good, as was ER care until about 4 PM. Then, I was moved to the ER hallway "to await assignment to a room in the hospital." I got my final test, an MRI, at about 6PM. At about 8 PM, I was finally given my first food to eat since check-in after we complained to the RN--I was told I was on do-not-eat anything status because I might go into a seizure, but I had already been checked by a hospitalist and a Dr. (moving my tongue around etc), and had already had all three ordered tests completed. The ER was a zoo after about 4PM, with numerous patients lined up in ambulance gurneys.At about 9:30 PM, I checked myself out and went home after I was told that I would probably spend the night in the hallway, because the Dr. who was going to read my MRI had gone home for the night and there were no available beds in the hospital. What SHOULD HAVE been done was schedule me for the MRI sooner so it could have been read by a Dr before he went home for the night, so I could have been released to go home rather than spend 15 hours in the ER hallway, where sleep would have been impossible. I also SHOULD HAVE been given some food sooner without our having to force the issue with an RN.