Yea Ben Taub is definitely not somewhere you want to be unless you absolutely have to. When I was in high school, I had a friend who put his arm through a window and they didn't have insurance so he had to go to BT. He was still sitting in the hallway the next day. There were metal detectors, there was blood on the floor in the hallways. It was quite gross.
@MrsT :
This is what I've always heard about BT.