JFC Man the **** up people

[The Mad Monk]

Roughly a quarter century ago, I was in a packaging / warehouse facility sealing an endless line of cartons with an industrial glue gun, which heated the glue it used to roughly 400 F. I was rolling along, though my attention was starting to drift. Halfway through laying down a line of glue, the current stick ran out and I reached across the carton to the pile of gluesticks to get another one; at the same time I lifted the glue gun off the flap of the carton, which caused it to lift up. As a result, fresh 400 F glue was applied directly to my wrist.

I stood there for the half second it took for the pain to reach my brain, then I dropped the glue gun and tried to wipe it off...with my other hand. That worked about as well as you might imagine. I sprinted to the nearest source of water, about 50 yards away, and started running cold water over the burns, which naturally enough solidified the glue. Not much glue got on the fingers on my other hand, and it peeled off easily, though the first degree burns hurt like hell. The area of solidified glue on my wrist didn't hurt. At all.

I showed the burn to my boss, and he sent me to the Doc In A Box down the street. So I went there, said I had a burn, got the pad of forms to fill out, sat down and got to writing. About ten minutes later the pain in my fingers was really becoming unbearable, so I got up and asked the receptionist if I could have some ice. She looked at my fingers and said that didn't look like it was worth a doctor visit. I said it wasn't for the fingers, it was for this -- and at that point I showed her the mass of glue on my wrist.

Thirty seconds later I was in an examination room.

[regexcellent]

Uh cool story?

[The Mad Monk]

If I had shown her my wrist when I first came in, I wouldn't have been made to wait. Providing complete information is important.

[kentonio]

If whatever your health problem is isn't worth $20 to you, you don't belong in the ER. Besides, what the hell is with this objection to exchanging currency for wealth?

Let's try this slowly and using simple words..

• Poor person is trying to live by balancing every penny in their tiny budget. They have kids to feed and a roof to put over their families heads.
• Poor person is in severe pain, and has to decide whether to go to the ER and hand over their last $20, or whether they want to pay their rent that week/feed their kids.
• Poor person decides to bear the pain, and ends up with a life threatening condition because they didn't go for the early diagnosis that could have solved the problem simply and cheaply.
• Hospital ends up paying for hundreds of thousands of dollars of treatment, poor person ends up bankrupt, and you pay the bill through higher insurance premiums.

You starting to see the problem yet?

[Lorizael]

Don't be retarded. You take the cake for "lamest excuse to suggest that people shouldn't have to pay for things that they need"

For example, I knew a guy who dropped a knife onto his foot. The rational course of action for him was to go to an urgent care center. Instead, he went to the ER, waited around for 2 hours, got angry, left, and then went to his college's health clinic nearly half a day later.

[Guynemer]

If I had shown her my wrist when I first came in, I wouldn't have been made to wait. Providing complete information is important.

He still would have waited.

A minor laceration would be given the lowest triage priority, period.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

If whatever your health problem is isn't worth $20 to you, you don't belong in the ER. Besides, what the hell is with this objection to exchanging currency for wealth?

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Getting back to the actual useful/interesting part of the thread:

Antibiotic creams, like Neosporin and generics? Those are fine. The problem is that many pathogenic organisms are developing resistance towards them. There's a prescription ointment called mupirocin that I prefer to use for that reason; there is literally no reason it shouldn't be over-the-counter as well, except, you know, money.

Is there any particular value to that liquid bandage stuff?

[Guynemer]

Can you be more specific?

[Ban Kenobi]

If whatever your health problem is isn't worth $20 to you, you don't belong in the ER. Besides, what the hell is with this objection to exchanging currency for wealth?

People can't always determine with absolute certainty if their problem is serious enough to justify going to the ER. If there's, say, a 20% chance that they need to go, charging people could cause a lot of people to take take a gamble and not go. Not middle class people for whom $20 isn't a such a big deal, of course.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Things like this:

http://www.newskinproducts.com/products/liquid_bandage.aspx

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[Guynemer]

Things like this:

http://www.newskinproducts.com/produ...d_bandage.aspx

Sure, why not? Sounds like superglue, essentially, which is also perfectly cromulent.

[dannubis]

But then don't ****ing blame the ER when you leave before being seen. That's how ****ing triage works. Don't be an overprivileged douchebag.

THIS ! Times 20.

[regexcellent]

The bandage they gave me was basically rubber cement and plastic strips.

It's not being an overpriveleged doucehbag to understand that if they charged money for the ER, it would solve the scarcity issue (i.e. people having to wait for 5 hours or more which is how long I was likely to be waiting) while also providing the money necessary to expand services to meet demand.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

e: also I was informed this morning that my case actually should have gotten stitches so the ER or some similar place was actually the right place to go. The knife actually went pretty deep and bounced off of the anklebone.

There's a lesson there. Sometimes it's worth waiting.