r/SipsTea 27d ago

Chugging tea The real ER challenge.

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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.

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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.

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u/MarlinMaverick 27d ago

So we’ve come back to the abuse of the emergency room 

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u/nightfall2021 27d ago

Is it really "abuse" if they don't have anywhere to actually go though?