Canada's system isn't perfect either:

Inquest ordered in wake of patient's suicide
Globe and Mail: Friday, November 8, 2002 - Print Edition, Page A9

Montreal -- Quebec Health Minister François Legault has ordered a coroner's inquest into the death of a severely depressed Quebec man who committed suicide after he went to an emergency ward and waited at least two hours without seeing a doctor. André Quintal, 53, was checked by a nurse at Sherbrooke's Hôtel-Dieu hospital Friday night, then left on a gurney for observation, but he later walked out of the hospital and jumped off a bridge.