I've worked as a nurse in emergency departments for over 12 years. I think it's cute people think drs know how people are seen, it's is ALWAYS the triage nurse that prioritise patients to be seen. The drs see patients by that priority, there are time limits set via these priorities. Like a category 2 paediatric patient must be seen by a dr in under 10mins. If there are two category 2 patients then it's first in first in! The system would fall apart if this wasn't the case.