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Originally Posted by KicDaKitty
You things very differently than I do. That minor cough could be RSV or pneumonia. I see where you are coming from. The other day I had a mother bring her daughter in because she a tick stuck to her. I told her she could easly remove it at home and her response was "hells no I ain't touching that shit, that is what you get the big bucks for" okay then. She sat in the waiting room for 45 minutes, it took us 2 minutes to remove the tick and in the end she was the one with the bill.
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Thats the type of situation im talking about, i understand it takes only two minutes to take care of her put the whole process of them going through the paperwork, the nurse getting the chart, the checking on allergies, and all the other protocols that must be gone over for each patient these small relativly unimportant ailments begin to add up and the time begins to add up... I can see the pneumonia or RSV concerns but i think that the individual situation would need to be taken into account (elderly, child, etc). It just gets so congested in these ERs that more situations SIMILIAR to the one in the original post will begin to be seen