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The Association of Salaried Medical Specialists' says many of our emergency departments are smashed.A woman has died with a brain bleed after allegedly being told by staff at Middlemore Hospital it would be eight hours before she was examined.An unnamed doctor from the Auckland hospital says the 50-year-old - who presented early Wednesday morning with a severe headache - left.Executive Director Sarah Dalton told Heather du Plessis-Allan all EDs run triaging process to try and determine how urgently someone needs to be seen.“For a number of our emergency departments at the moment, even getting people to triage them is incredibly difficult. You’ve got massive numbers of people coming through the door.”LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.