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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are at the point of going to an Emergency Room shouldn't you be going to whichever one is the closest?  honest question, not being snarky.
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It depends what the emergency is. Traumatic head injury? Don't go to the closest hospital. Flu or fever? Sure. [/quote]

A lot of urgent care facilities won't see kids under 18 months, so we once had to go to the ER for pink eye because DS got it on a Saturday.[/quote]

Flu, pink eye and fever... I would not go to the ER, I would go to the minute clinic, or call my pediatrician or wait until Monday.

For a traumatic brain injury... Like a concussion there is nothing the ER can do, call the pediatrician and plan to go to Children's Hospital the following week. If there is a physical injury to the outside of the head that needs stitches,I would still just go to the nearest hospital.[/quote]

Aak!  This is not true. If the brain is swelling, emergency surgery to relieve the pressure can make a difference between life and death. Same if there is a skull fracture that is pushing into the brain. For a run of the mill concussion, sure, skip the ER. When our kid had a TBI and skull fracture and was not conscious for five hours, we went straight to the ER. [/quote]

I said a skull fracture go to ER, bump on the head call your pediatrician.

You act like nobody ever overreacts and goes to the ER when they don't need to do so. This is a Hugh problem with the ER.[/quote]

I would rather someone overreact than under react and keep a child home that later dies.[/quote]

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