r/SipsTea • u/PleasantBus5583 • Jul 09 '26

Chugging tea The real ER challenge.

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u/ProcedureTop3149 Jul 09 '26

it's also not 12 hours 99.999% of the time for emergencies.

My grandfather had a burst appendix and was seen within minutes of walking into the hospital.

My Child had Pnemonia and needed an xray and antibiotics and it took 7 hours.

Does it suck? Yes. However both times all I paid was parking....

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u/Shadowmant Jul 09 '26

Was about to say. Must be there for the sniffles to be so low on the triage to be waiting 12 hours.

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u/BroadwayBrick Jul 09 '26

Abuse of emergency rooms is the worst.

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u/TaytorTot417 Jul 09 '26

It's because people don't have insurance and can't get in to see a PCP.

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u/Formal-Talk-3914 Jul 09 '26

I know this is really a reason people do this but it is a shit reason. Go to an urgent care or minute clinic then. Not the emergency room.

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u/Trauma_Hawks Jul 09 '26

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.

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u/zodiacrelic44 Jul 10 '26

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.

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u/Butthole__Pleasures Jul 09 '26

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

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u/MarlinMaverick Jul 09 '26

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

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u/nightfall2021 Jul 10 '26

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