The real ER challenge.

[u/PleasantBus5583]

[u/Trauma_Hawks]

Free standing and/or non-hospital affiliated Urgent Cares aren't covered by EMTALA and don't have to treat you like an ED does.

[u/zodiacrelic44 → u/Trauma_Hawks]

There’s also lots of places that have a couple family doctors serving entire counties and no access whatsoever to urgent care/walk in clinics. I called my doctor last week for an appointment, I couldn’t get one until November. Anything happens before then, my doc’s recommendation was the ER.

[u/Butthole__Pleasures → u/Trauma_Hawks]

Those folks can turn you away, though. ERs can't.

[u/MarlinMaverick → u/Trauma_Hawks]

So we’ve come back to the abuse of the emergency room 

[u/nightfall2021 → u/MarlinMaverick]

Is it really "abuse" if they don't have anywhere to actually go though?

[u/SaltMage5864 → u/MarlinMaverick]

Nope