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   A voice over the intercom delivers the bad news, and throughout the car   
   there are audible sighs.   
      
   Your train is delayed because of a sick passenger.   
      
   Subway riders sit and wonder: Who is this sick passenger, and why is he or   
   she on my train? Any sympathy for the mysterious person is often mixed   
   with annoyance.   
      
   At the same time, an intricate effort unfolds out of sight. The train’s   
   crew alerts the rail control center to send an ambulance to the nearest   
   station. The emergency medical workers rush below ground to locate the   
   patient — often a challenge in more labyrinthine stations.   
      
   This process can stretch on for more than half an hour, creating a cascade   
   of delays across the vast system. And so the not-sick passengers wait. And   
   wait. Statistics show they are waiting more than ever these days.   
      
   Sick passengers have accounted for about 3,000 train delays each month   
   this year in New York City, a figure that has grown drastically in recent   
   years, up from about 1,800 each month in 2012, according to the   
   Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The authority alerts riders to the   
   incidents on Twitter, and some have responded by voicing frustration over   
   the disruptions.   
      
   Yet despite the frequency of these delays, they remain a persistent riddle   
   for many riders who have no idea what exactly the phrase “sick passenger”   
   means.   
      
   Officials at the authority say the incidents often involve riders who have   
   fainted or vomited. Other passengers might have had a heart attack or a   
   seizure, or could be unconscious or even dead. A sick customer is not, as   
   some surmise, a suicide on the tracks, which workers are instructed to   
   announce as a “police investigation.”   
      
   The timing and location of a delay can determine how many riders are   
   affected. In September, as crowds of people streamed into the subway after   
   the pope’s visit to Central Park, an A train screeched to a halt just   
   north of West 72nd Street. Someone had pulled the emergency brake in the   
   last car to report that a young woman felt sick.   
      
   Nelson Ortiz, the leader of a subway emergency response team stationed   
   nearby in case problems arose during the papal event, told the train crew   
   to proceed to the next express station, at 125th Street. The woman   
   ultimately declined medical help, and the train continued on. But the   
   incident at 6:05 p.m. caused a 13-minute delay in the middle of the   
   evening rush, long enough to delay 11 trains.   
      
   In a subway system with 469 stations and as many as six million riders a   
   day, some riders are bound to get sick.   
      
   The number of delays caused by sick passengers has fluctuated this year,   
   with an uptick during March and April, statistics show. The authority does   
   not know exactly why.   
      
   One Twitter post announced last week, for instance: Northbound “#2 & #5   
   trains delayed due to a sick customer at E 180 St. Allow additional travel   
   time.”   
      
   The other top reasons for delays include overcrowding, equipment problems   
   and bad weather. As the aging system — which first opened more than a   
   century ago — struggles to handle booming ridership, the overall number of   
   train delays has also increased.   
      
   After a delay this month on an N train Susie Moy was riding, she took to   
   Twitter to complain, as many riders have — often in angry and colorful   
   language. “Enough with the sick passenger excuse,” she wrote to the   
   authority’s account. “No one buys it!”   
      
   Ms. Moy, 25, who lives in Sunset Park in Brooklyn, has noticed more of   
   these delays and wondered whether they were really caused by sick   
   passengers, rather than equipment problems. If more people are falling   
   ill, the authority should have more personnel on hand to help, she said.   
      
   “It just doesn’t make sense to delay thousands of people over one sick   
   passenger,” she said in an interview. “There has to be a better way to   
   handle it.”   
      
   The response by the authorities depends on the condition of the sick   
   passenger. Workers are instructed not to move riders who cannot walk off   
   the train on their own and to wait for emergency medical workers to assess   
   the patient. If the passenger can step off the train, someone else — a   
   friend, a worker or a police officer — must stay until help arrives.   
   Otherwise, the conductor must stay with the rider, and the train may have   
   to be pulled out of service.   
      
   In 2013, Casey Blue James was standing on a crowded train in Queens when   
   she started to feel woozy and fainted. When she awoke, the train was   
   stopped and everyone was staring at her. A transportation authority worker   
   stayed with her at the station until an ambulance arrived to take her to   
   the emergency room.   
      
   When Ms. James, 26, who works in publishing and lives in Jackson Heights,   
   Queens, had the same dizzy feeling last year, she shoved her way off the   
   train to avoid embarrassment and fainted on a platform. After being told   
   she had a condition in which her blood pressure can drop rapidly, she now   
   carries water and snacks in her bag.   
      
   Before it happened to her, she was annoyed by the delays like everyone   
   else.   
      
   “I feel much more sympathetic when I hear that’s the reason now,” she   
   said.   
      
   In an ad campaign, the authority has urged riders who feel sick to get off   
   at the next stop to get help — and to alleviate delays. Officials have   
   reminded riders not to pull the emergency brake, which abruptly stops the   
   train, because that can slow the emergency response if the train is   
   stranded between stations.   
      
   Starting in the late 1990s, the transportation authority tried to reduce   
   the impact of sick passengers by stationing nurses in a few busy stations.   
   But the program ended around 2008, done in by a budget crunch.   
      
   John Rugen, an E.M.T. for the New York Fire Department, has responded to a   
   number of sick riders, including a man who had a seizure this year in   
   Queens. Finding a patient can be challenging, he said, especially at big,   
   busy stations where many lines converge and entry points are spread over a   
   wide area.   
      
   Other riders are often impatient, eager to get moving and sometimes   
   oblivious to the condition of the passenger.   
      
   “You can’t stop patient care and explain what’s happening,” Mr. Rugen   
   said.   
      
   For Gene Russianoff, the longtime leader of the Straphangers Campaign, a   
   rider advocacy group, being a sick passenger taught him that New Yorkers   
   can be remarkably kind. When he once fell forward while on a train and hit   
   the floor, bloodying his nose, people on the train rushed to help.   
      
   “It’s the golden rule,” he said. “If you got sick, would you want someone   
   to step over you and say, ‘I’m late to get to Macy’s’?”   
      
      
      
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