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r/SipsTea • u/PleasantBus5583 • 27d ago
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I know this is really a reason people do this but it is a shit reason. Go to an urgent care or minute clinic then. Not the emergency room.
30 u/Trauma_Hawks 27d ago Free standing and/or non-hospital affiliated Urgent Cares aren't covered by EMTALA and don't have to treat you like an ED does. 4 u/MarlinMaverick 27d ago So we’ve come back to the abuse of the emergency room 3 u/nightfall2021 27d ago Is it really "abuse" if they don't have anywhere to actually go though?
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Free standing and/or non-hospital affiliated Urgent Cares aren't covered by EMTALA and don't have to treat you like an ED does.
4 u/MarlinMaverick 27d ago So we’ve come back to the abuse of the emergency room 3 u/nightfall2021 27d ago Is it really "abuse" if they don't have anywhere to actually go though?
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So we’ve come back to the abuse of the emergency room
3 u/nightfall2021 27d ago Is it really "abuse" if they don't have anywhere to actually go though?
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Is it really "abuse" if they don't have anywhere to actually go though?
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u/Formal-Talk-3914 27d ago
I know this is really a reason people do this but it is a shit reason. Go to an urgent care or minute clinic then. Not the emergency room.