There is not enough room for all the sick and injured people in Minnesota to receive the emergency care they need.

Hundreds are waiting, some on the floor, in hopes that a bed or operating table might open up. On Tuesday morning, 246 patients statewide had been waiting for more than four hours for a bed…

“I’m examining people’s ankles who are sitting on the floor because we have literally run out of any space to put them,” Dr. John Hick, the medical director for emergency preparedness at Hennepin County Medical Center, told Insider…

“We’re electing to have to leave patients in rural hospitals” and discharging patients “that I normally would’ve admitted,” Hick told Insider, calling it a “first-come, first-served” system, which is not how emergency medicine is supposed to work.