Are You "Emergency Room Happy"?

[mlynn]

I would have responded sooner, but I was too stunned to move. Call me stupid, but wouldn't saline and a clean cloth, followed by a five freaking dollar tube of over-the-counter antibiotic, have made more sense?

No, I don't have my medical degree; my brother offered to make me one but so far - nothin' But I do have common sense.

LOL. I would have went to CVS for something. I couldn't believe it when I heard her telling the doctor why she was there.I was sitting withmy husband and his split openleg.

 

[NotUrsula]

Personally, I'm the farthest thing from it. I have not been treated in an emergency room since 1970, when I was 8 years old. (I was riding a friends bike when part of it broke and I fell off hard enough to knock myself out. While I was lying in the gravel road, a car ran over me, and it dragged me quite a way.) The treatment that I received on that occasion was so very painful that I've avoided ER's ever since; I associate them with agony.

I did call 911 for DH once, 14 years ago; he had just been released from the hospital after surgery, and he fell and blacked out while in the bathroom later that day. They took him back to the hospital; it turned out he had a serious infection. I did wait in the ER with him while they found him a bed, but he wasn't treated there.

Neither one of my children has ever seen the inside of an ER. When DD2 fractured her tibia last year we took her to an urgent care for an x-ray and pain meds, but then took her to an orthopedist's office the next morning to get it set. (She broke it on Easter Sunday.)

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

No, but I've always lived in a high tourist area. So maybe long waits are on account that there are many people in the area who don't have their regular doctor???

I was once transported via ambulance to an ER to get stitches for a cut that the scar is about an inch long--but then hooks up by about 1/3 of an inch. No idea how many stitches that is.


And it wasn't my parents idea--the lifeguards called the ambulance and said that is where I had to go.