one_or_the_other.qmd

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title: (Coming Soon!) Waiting for One or The Other
author:
  - name: TBC
---

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This section is a work in progress
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Sometimes in a system you may find yourself in a situation where you need to <!--TODO: incomplete sentence -->

For example, you may have:

- An operating theatre where the operation will be cancelled if a recovery bed resource is not available within a certain time of the patient beginning to be prepped.
- An air ambulance where the call will be regarded as 'missed' and exit the system if an air ambulance resource is not immediately available.

This is really just a similar situation to reneging - but instead of using a patience attribute, we instead provide some other value - often a fixed period of time - to check against.

:::{.callout-note}
Code for this example is coming soon.

In the meantime, take a look at the [reneging](https://des.hsma.co.uk/reneging_balking_jockeying.html#the-attend_clinic-method) section - in particular the use of the OR statement in the form of the `|` (pipe).
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