You drove your husband to a Bronx emergency room because half his face was drooping and his words were coming out wrong. The triage nurse wrote down "dizziness," parked him in a hallway bed, and a doctor didn't examine him for three hours. By the time anyone ordered a CT scan of his brain, the window for the clot-busting drug that could have stopped the stroke had closed. A missed stroke in the ER isn't just a bad outcome — it's often the difference between walking out of the