Figure 1.

Students’ drawing depicting the patient experience in the ED. Student ethnographers collectively drew this picture of a patient's experience in the ED. The left side of the picture depicts a feature of Salvador Dali's painting “The Persistence of Memory (1931),” also known as “Clocks.” Patients experience a pseudo dream state with the lengthy passage of time while waiting in the ED, separated by a wall, viewing the hurried activities occurring outside of the room (depicted by a tornado on the right side of the drawing).