I went to an ER once for a head injury.

I tripped and fell, hit my head on my desk and ended up getting 34 stitches.

This was at 3 in the morning and there wasn't a soul in there. I still had to wait 6 hours for the damn stitches.

During my wait, the police questioned me twice and questioned my wife 4 times about domestic violence. I was also asked to take a drug and alcohol test.

It was the first and only time I had ever gone to an ER, and I had no idea I would be treated like a criminal just for having an injury.

 

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Last time I was in an ER as a patient I had a head injury as well. Slipped on a wet floor and hit my head on a flight of stairs. Some lidocaine, 6 stitches, 25 minutes tops, 417 euro charged to my insurance company.


And the doctor was freakin' hawt

 

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My favorite experience with a hot doctor in the ER was after a mtn bike injury, where i skewered my groin. I had to get full on naked and she had to put her wrist over my penis while stitching me up. She even stuck her finger in the hole i created in my groin.

Surreal experience. I was bleeding like crazy actually, so i had several ER nurses clean up my balls and groin. Lol.

The biggest shock was that the cute ER doctor called me a few days later to see how i was doing. Its pretty rare for a dr to make personal calls.

How much does it cost to go to the ER?

 

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Depends on the hospital and what you're doing there, but I'd say even for a quick in/out without insurance it's probably going to be $400 at a minimum.

 

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Call me heartless but I would just leave those overdosing to die. It would go far to ending our medical cost and drug problems. Sadly we are too "civilized" to do that. It is far better punishing everyone else for the mistakes of a few.

 

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I feel the same way about people that eat their way in to strokes, heart disease, diabetes and other fat people diseases. Same with people who refuse to wear safety equipment or do things that I think are too dangerous.


See where this slippery slope leads you?

 

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