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Originally Posted by Blossom
This has just started in the last ten years. I've never seen anything like it. If your blood tests are fine then you are fine. They don't care that you're in severe pain because your blood tests say you are perfectly fine. And they can't be bother finding the cause that's for a real doctor to do. The real doctor will tell you to go to the ER. It's a never ending loop and meanwhile the bills mount up and doctors get richer while the nurses get worn out and not care anymore.
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There is also the problem or reality that even with the advent of mass health care, whatever, that some folks flood the County health system, here, because they can basically just not pay. Our County Hospital system is set up for indigent care. (This is how most folks who needed health care got health care, prior to the advent of OCare.)
So, in addition to those folks who, for whatever reason, go to ER or UC rather than their regular doctor, are those who go to the ER because they end up not paying.
Honestly, I don't understand the whole "put it off until you're in the ER" thing, myself. Nyet. A broken bone, or whatever, sure, but otherwise...I'd avoid it like the plague. I shattered my big toe, a few years back, and ended up waiting several days (so that I could hop into the shower and get clean, before inflicting myself on the docs/nurses), and ended up at an urgent care. That was bad enough. I'd literally have to be at death's door to subject myself to an ER trip, these days. 8 HOURS? No, thanks.
Hitch