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Originally Posted by blankall
Our daughter had a fever for a week, so we took her to one in Vancouver at around 10:00AM. We were told they were done taking appointments for the day and the only option was the ER. Luckily her fever began to ease that day, but I don't even want to think about would have happened if things had progressed into a real emergency.
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Yeah well, I'm fighting a bit with my current new Doctor.
Her answer for everything is 'Go to the ER.'
I have, on many occasions, told her that the ER is the very last place on Earth I want to be unless I absolutely have no choice.
I dont want to be 'that guy' going to the ER for the sniffles.
"But they have all of the equipment to run all the tests!"
Yes. They do. But thats...
for Emergencies! Which part of this isn't sinking in?
Anyways, I'm not ditching her because its nigh on impossible getting a family Doctor these days but I'm not hitting up the ER for every blood test or whatever either, thats insane.
So I get to become...'that troublesome patient.'
"How come you havent got those blood tests done yet?"
- Because it takes a long time to get an appointment.
"Just go to ER!"
- We've been over this. It isnt happening.