declansdad
DIS Dad #639 New Brunswick, Canada
- Joined
- Apr 14, 2004
Oh we have idiots up here too! Along with conspiracy nutcases.
In our province you should be going to urgent care for a broken finger not ER. Urgent Care is a 24/7 walk in clinic - ER is for life threatening events - heart attacks, shootings, stabbings, car accidents. Not broken fingers.
ERs get abused here as idiots cannot figure out to contact their family doctor or go to a walk-in/urgent care rather than go to the ER for something like strep throat or a broken finger. Idiots.
Eta
urgent care in my province
See Urgent Care for things like:
Urgent care centres are able to provide services not available in many doctors’ offices, such as stitches and casts, but are not equivalent to emergency departments.
- illnesses or injuries that cannot wait for you to see your family doctor
- fevers, flu symptoms, rashes or infections
- dehydration
- cuts that won’t stop bleeding
- injured limb that might be broken or sprained
- any other urgent, but not life-threatening, conditions
Urgent care centres help conserve emergency department resources for more serious, life-threatening conditions. Patients are seen based on their medical need, not order of arrival.
In my province you go to the ER for broken bones.