re: people come to the ER at 2 AM for the stupidest crap

Scruffy should give them an aspirin and send them all home.

I'm not saying it's exactly the most intelligent decisions that are made, but if you don't have children, don't judge everything.

When you're informed that the neighbor's kid just got out of the hospital for pneumonia, and your 4 month old (first child) gets his first cold, you don't know what's normal and what's "really sick". My son had a "hard" time breathing (at least compared to anything we had experienced at the time) and we had just moved that week and didn't have a pediatrician set up yet, so no nurse hotline to call. Brought him to an urgent care/er type facility since it was all that was open. Not an actual ER, but still in hindsight an overreaction. They tested for RSV, but he was fine. As someone with no medical degree, their first experience with a newborn being sick, it's tough on a parent to know sometimes. You love that kid more than anything, so you don't care if you inconvenience the ER. The littlest things make you worry. Still after a year and a half, if he is too still in the video monitor, we can't sleep until we see him squirm a little .

Just as you aren't an expert in other fields, we aren't all experts in yours. Now, I'm not saying a lot of shite isn't really dumb. But sometimes, cut a parent a break. You think they enjoy being up at 3 am with their kids at the ER. They aren't even getting paid for it. shite, I think my son's trip was a $1200 mistake! You live and you learn.