An elderly McMinnville man endured what he calls an “agonizing and dehumanizing” experience at Ascension St. Thomas River Park Hospital’s emergency room in McMinnville recently. Dan Butler, 70, who was walking up to 10 miles a day before the incident, was admitted to the ER on Jan. 24 suffering from extreme stomach pain, presumably from a hernia that had perforated.
Butler tells of 'agonizing' ER wait time