re: Ridiculous Reasons People Go To Urgent Care

People go to the regular doctor just as often for BS reasons. A lot of poors show up for every minor ache and pain and sniffle. It's like they have nothing better to do....Instead of turning people away, I wish we could at least charge them for drug seeking. Like if you show up just to try to get some pills, Medicaid shouldn't pay for that.

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Democrats, Mexicans, and meth heads. They are the reason ERs are complete hellholes.

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This right here.

I have been to the ER 3 times in my life:
1)Severely dislocated knee
2)High fever trouble turning neck, with swollen lymph nodes (ended up being mono)
3)Was coughing up bloody mucus (pneumonia)

I feel like most people go for more benign things.

A buddy of mine went because of a "sore" back. I told him he was an idiot.

Frick urgent Care, they want the entire deductible.

Go to the real ER

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As long as the two doctors are in the same specialty and providing the same service, there won't be a difference in cost based on one having a Caribbean education.

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Also, regardless if they went to med school in the Caribbean if they are practicing in the U.S. they probably completed a residency program in the U.S., and passed the same board exams as graduates of LSU, Johns Hopkins, Harvard etc., at that point where they went to med school doesn't really matter.

Unless I got dehydrated, no.

An ER doc was at our grill out once and he was telling us about him serving his time at Earl K. Said once he had a lady in her twenties come in because her boyfriend complains that her belly button stank.

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About a year and a half ago I had a spider bite that I let get worse than I should have and ended up having to go to an urgent care. The NP cut through the infection, packed it up and did the whole process.

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Not sure if the NP didn't have the heart to tell you or just didn't know, but I guarantee you this wasn't a spider bite. You had an abscess, or boil, or "rizen" as some people like to say. Yes you had an infection, but it wasn't from a spider. People have been published from papers proving that it wasn't a spider bite.

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Not sure if the NP didn't have the heart to tell you or just didn't know, but I guarantee you this wasn't a spider bite. You had an abscess, or boil, or "rizen" as some people like to say. Yes you had an infection, but it wasn't from a spider. People have been published from papers proving that it wasn't a spider bite.

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That is interesting. It started off as, what felt like a mosquito bite, but when I would stratch it, it had a sting to it. Earlier that day I was outside and was spraying some insect spray and on the outside of my shop door there were 3 or spiders that ran up the door.. One got on me, but I didn't think much of it. It wasn't until it started to get really bad that I was trying to figure out what it could have been.

At first it looked like a boil, "pop" it and it seemed to get better for a few days then it suddenly got worse than before. The NP asked me if I recall maybe coming across a spider or something... then went on to tell me how he was bitten by a spider then one day in the woods he had to end up cutting the bite, etc.. So I am just assuming that's what it was.