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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At the end of the day this is about the doctor's right to make sure they don't inadvertently kill a baby. You might not be lying, but a LOT of people lie in the ED. And a lot of people will swear they aren't pregnant because of a vasectomy or BC or their tubes are tied only to be the rare failure.

What I feel like a lot of posters here don't realize is how incredibly impactful pregnancy is to a woman. If you ARE pregnant, their are treatments that can kill you. Even if you don't care about the baby, the mother's health can be greatly impacted by pregnancy as well.

It would have been negligent for them to NOT run an HCG on a 22 year old with abdominal pain. If they had not run the test but OP's daughter was in fact pregnant and something they did caused the baby to be injured, or perhaps OP's daughter crashed the next day because it was an ectopic, then the urgent care could be sued. Because it is a standard of care test that gives critical critical information about a woman's health. I had sinus surgery this spring and they ran a pregnancy test on my despite my tubes being out. Because the consequences of NOT KNOWING a woman is pregnant can easily be deadly, and the test is non invasive, there is basically no reason to not run it.[/quote]

It strikes me as obvious that the same people saying that a pregnancy test shouldn't be done routinely in this situation are the same ones that would RUN to an attorney if anything went wrong during treatment or surgery, assuming the patient was, in fact, pregnant.[/quote]

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