How do you all react when friends or family members tell you about trips to the emergency room when they could've stayed home and gone to the doctor's office in the morning? This is a HUGE pet peeve of mine. I don't work in energency, I work L&D, but I am sick of seeing the effects of low budget care caused by people abusing our system.
Last night a friend told me she took her sister in because it hurt when she was breathing. I asked more about it and it turns out the girl was crying and yelling about it hurting (she is known for her hysterics). So after about 2 hours of her carrying on they took her to the emergency room. My pov is that if you can yell and cry, for two hours, you're breathing ain't that bad. This girl also went to the emergency room once after scratching her foot on a nail because she thought she would die from tetorifice (and her tetorifice shot WAS up to date at the time). Do people not understand what a visit to the emergency room costs? Especially with all the CYA orders from docs? This drives me nuts. Am I just super anal?