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Originally Posted by kanoa1kale2
How is a layman to define what is an emergency and what is not? Btw, most Urgent Care centers around here close between 5 and 7pm. There are a number of very competent ER facilities very close by.
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Why not?????
So far,
on this thread alone, we have had laymen go home and diagnose themselves (wrongly, I'm pretty sure), laymen who know what tests they do and do not need, laymen who know ER protocol, laymen who know ER to hospitalist patient handoff protocols, laymen who know the role of the ER physician in examination and treatment, laymen who know the need for and protocols for transferring a patient to another facility (COBRA notwithstanding
), and more. So why not let these
AMATEUR PHYSICIANS do their own triage as to what is and is not an emergency? What could possibly go wrong????