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[quote=Anonymous]I have made too many trips by ambulance lately...and more to the ER...

There are three reasons to go buy ambulance:
1) you are alone in an emergency...for me, this was a house fire where I was burned trying to put it out...I needed medical care.  The ambulance came with the fire trucks...I thought about just having my wife drive, but they were already there...

--triage at the hospital put me in a low priority group.

2) Passed out during a stress test....coded (no heart beat for 20 seconds).  I was not given a choice...
--triage put me in the highest priority...and I stayed a week.

3) Passed out in the middle of the night with severe abdominal cramping, broke my nose on the impact...rule of thumb....if you wake up on the floor in a pool of blood call 911...(FWIW, they did not find the cause of the cramping, but did discover I had cancer).
--hospital was empty, so they took me right in..no wait for anything.

Non-911 trips...

1) Christmas day, so urgent care not open....fell on Ice down a set out outdoor stairs, cracked a rib.  I knew something was wrong.  I could drive, and drove myself to the ER.

2) Post surgery, wound opened up (part 1)....

3) Post surgery, would became infected after 3 or 4 weeks...went to urgent care first, they could not handle it -- like oh my god...this is horrible...at ER, was told no big deal, but it was appropriate.

911 is appropriate if it is a potentially life threatening incident.  [/quote]

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