• ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃@pawb.social
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      11 months ago

      Buddy, in America we could wait 12 hours, get a $1000 bill to look at it, then wait 12 weeks to actually get treatment if the radioactive spider bite requires referral to a specialist, followed by a $4000+ bill if the only radioarachnidologist is “out of network”…

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        11 months ago

        You left out the part where after the 12 week wait for treatment your referral expired and now need a new one before they’ll see you.

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      11 months ago

      You only wait that long if they’ve determined you’re not actually an emergency.

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          11 months ago

          If you are actively dying or at risk of sudden death you get to cut the line. If you’re waiting a long time in the ER it’s because there are people sicker than you, or a lot of people as sick as you in front of you. Stable but needs treatment is basically the bottom of the list.

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      11 months ago

      Welcome to literally all emergency rooms anywhere. They’re emergency rooms, the bigger the emergency, the further up the line you move. A spider bite in many instances is not that big of an emergency. A spider bite from an experimental radioactive spider with who knows what done to it? That’s at the “getting a government agency involved” level of emergency.

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      11 months ago

      Last time I was in a U.S. Emergency Room, I was there a good 10-12 hours. The time before that, it was 8 or 9. And both times I came early in the day when there was almost no one in the waiting room.