A Headache is not an emergency

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I just don't understand!!

Why are patients using the ED for a simple headache just to get??? Tylenol. That stuff doesn't even work. It's more like placebo pills!

Insurance pays $5,000 for a freaking headache

My insurance rates go up because you decided to read in the dark.

Move to Barrow, Alaska to have 24 hour sunlight..

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Hi, my emotions are overwhelmed and lacerated from reading all these posts. should I go to an ER, will they activate psychiatric level I trauma? I am allergic to morphine, toradol, codeine, zofran, tylenol, and oh, narcan.

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Hi, my emotions are overwhelmed and lacerated from reading all these posts. should I go to an ER, will they activate psychiatric level I trauma? I am allergic to morphine, toradol, codeine, zofran, tylenol, and oh, narcan.

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That was sarcasm, it wasn't serious. Lol

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That was sarcasm, it wasn't serious. Lol

Lol. Pregnancy brain. 🙃

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Lol. Pregnancy brain. 🙃

Lol, I thought you got the sarcasm, and were responding with sarcasm too!! Doh!!

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Lol, I thought you got the sarcasm, and were responding with sarcasm too!! Doh!!

Hahaha no. Although I should've said that. Hahaha! [emoji12]

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And this is why I hate triaging a headache. No neuro deficits, but 'worst headache of my life' or crying & being super dramatic could absolutely be life threatening. Or it could just be a headache.

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Sometimes, headaches aren't emergencies, but sometimes they are. Just because that's the main symptoms doesn't mean something else is going on. I've had pt's come in with headaches and after a CT they are diagnosed with brain bleeds, tumors, CVA's, etc. Had one last night who came in with a headache, was up walking and talking and such, within 1 hr when CT was back she was seizing, no airway and had a subarachnoid hemorrhage. We intubated and sent her to a higher level of care facility.

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Oh, man I could just walk in and get breast implants the same day???? Sweet!!!!!

D'oh! I clicked the wrong button. I meant to quote the walk in OR comment.

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I wonder if less people would use the ER if they had to wait longest to be seen for non critical stuff....oh wait they just yell at the triage nurse.

ill never forget the small finger lac where the 20 something year old girl had to wait 45 minutes with her 10/10 pain to get it glued. She was hysterical and crying. Then a gsw got dropped off no she still had the nerve to ask why the wait was so long. I wanted to suggest she go get shot if she really wanted to be seen that quickly. Held my tongue tho cuz I like my job. The motherly glare worked well enough to get her to stop asking....

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I'm guessing your town doesn't have any minute clinics?

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Good catch mindofmidwifery. You response to organized chaos was spot on. Organized chaos--I'm a bit confused why you responded in a passive aggressive way, mindofmidwifery could not be more correct.

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