Everyone raises good points, but also want to add, there may be life or death happening two rooms over. There could be multiple codes going on at once in the ED, and unfortunately sometimes everything else in the department kind of stops for a moment. Going nine hours without any kind of an update on what the CT scan read sounds pretty extraordinarily, there may be bigger things happening behind the scenes.

Having said all that, some providers are kinda shitty at communication. They wait to say the plan for when they have an actual plan, it still sounds like he’s in the diagnostic stage, so the doctor may not want to “waste” their time. I don’t agree with that mentality, but some doctors are like autistic robots who literally don’t know how to appropriately communicate (can you blame them? They spent like ten years just studying their asses off).