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Originally Posted by bizaro86
He's right about many people at the ER not needing ER level care. People who need burns dressed, stitches, a cast for a broken bone, etc all need care urgently, but don't need a full ER.
We don't have an alternative for them right now, but we should.
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But this is the crux of the healthcare issue. Say you have one of those things tonight at 7:30pm. That's far from an ungodly hour, and yet you have the ER to go to and almost nothing else. Need a CT scan, or whatever at 8pm? ER. Is it life threatening? Maybe not, but you have no options on where to go, essentially.