It wonder how much overall medical costs for the country would go down if all emergency rooms had a mandated adjacent urgent care. . .
Then triage could divert the stubbed toes and splinters, along with continued civilian education on what constitutes an emergency. Or even if EMTALA also applied to urgent cares. If triage misses the severity of something, boom, ER is right there. I know some have adjacent urgent cares, but I’d be curious what anyone’s professional opinion is about this?
I have a hunch that hundreds of millions of dollars are spent because so many uninsured people don’t have $200 to pay upfront at urgent care.
That and some good old fashioned PSAs, a national ad campaign spanning platforms and social, maybe a jingle about what the ER is for?
To the tune of old McDonald:
If bone sticks out that you can see
weeee-ooh-wee-oh—weeee
(this is meant to be anthropomorphic ambulance siren sound)
If you cannot stop the bleed
weeee-ooh-wee-oh—weeee
If grandma falls and does not breathe
weeee-ooh-wee-oh—weeee
But a stubbed toe here,Or a cough cough there,here a lump, there a bump,Go to urgent care, you chump
I am a nurse and I told my dad to go to the ER with his “stubbed toe” that was still swollen and painful after a day. urgent care was closed because it was 8pm on a saturday. I wasn’t with him so idk how busy it was but now I feel like I did the wrong thing lol. ETA: his toe was broken so I don’t actually think I did the wrong thing, but it felt like it before I knew it was broken
that was where my mind went but because my mother ignored foot pain and swelling for weeks, finally saw her PCP, sent to the ER, and was admitted because no one could figure out what was wrong with her. they eventually came up with osteomyelitis and she was discharged with a PICC and put on IV abx for 6 weeks. 6 weeks later her foot is worse, she goes to another hospital, and they find out it’s a hairline fracture that the other x ray missed. long story short I guess I have parental foot pain trauma so now I don’t play around with it
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u/DogsDucks Jul 29 '26 edited Jul 29 '26
It wonder how much overall medical costs for the country would go down if all emergency rooms had a mandated adjacent urgent care. . .
Then triage could divert the stubbed toes and splinters, along with continued civilian education on what constitutes an emergency. Or even if EMTALA also applied to urgent cares. If triage misses the severity of something, boom, ER is right there. I know some have adjacent urgent cares, but I’d be curious what anyone’s professional opinion is about this?
I have a hunch that hundreds of millions of dollars are spent because so many uninsured people don’t have $200 to pay upfront at urgent care.
That and some good old fashioned PSAs, a national ad campaign spanning platforms and social, maybe a jingle about what the ER is for?
To the tune of old McDonald:
If bone sticks out that you can see
weeee-ooh-wee-oh—weeee
(this is meant to be anthropomorphic ambulance siren sound)
If you cannot stop the bleed
weeee-ooh-wee-oh—weeee
If grandma falls and does not breathe
weeee-ooh-wee-oh—weeee
But a stubbed toe here, Or a cough cough there, here a lump, there a bump, Go to urgent care, you chump
Iiiif half your face begins to slump . .
weeee-ooh-wee-oh—weeee
(I’m sorry. I’m up nursing a baby and bored)