You walk into a Queens emergency room with severe lower back pain, numbness in your legs, and trouble urinating. The triage nurse logs your vitals. A resident does a quick exam, hands you a prescription for muscle relaxers, and tells you to follow up with your primary doctor next week. Forty-eight hours later, you're paralyzed from the waist down because a tumor, an abscess, or a herniated disc was crushing your spinal cord — and surgery that could have saved your function ha