ER waiting rooms

Last time I was in the ER my hand was cut to ribbons and squirting blood a few feet if I made a fist, they told me to wrap it in the beach towl I was holding and sit down. I waited for over an hour to get stiches and told I needed surgery to reattach the tendons

My elbow hurt

Welcome to the access of care discussion, and doubt it gets better. Government should have never got involved in Healthcare, they screw everything up, and will inadvertently kill millions...

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ER never crosses my mind except for bones sticking out, difficulty breathing or those type things.

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you clearly underestimate the amount of people trying to extort narcotics from the health care system in this country

but do it feel funny?

Emergency rooms suck. I'm not sure when they became after hours clinics for people with a sinus infection, but this is a large part of why insurance premiums are so high. Er's have to treat these folks and most likely the people using the place in that manner have no insurance and no plans on paying the bill.

The law should allow the hospital to deny treatment if it is not a true emergency IMO. But, I know that will never happen because some nurse doesn't want to treat some dude not feeling well and he dies driving home from a heart attack.

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Why wouldn’t you go to a walk in clinic? I know you can’t judge a book by the cover but still wondering.

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To people that know they won't have a bill, to them the ER seems like a logical solution to most problems because they have no financial obligation to the cost.

It's amazing that something as simple as a few stitches can take four hours with an empty ER

Id go to say that 80% of the people that go to the ER are bullshite. The other 20% are either admitted or discharged w actual injuries that need follow up care, ortho injuries and such.

You pretty damn close.