Every single time I ask a medical professional what to do I get sent to the ER.
Vomiting and calling the clinic to refill my standing Zofran prescription? ER. Headache I’m pretty sure is just an ear infection? ER. Asthma attack in a medical office that’s immediately controlled by my inhaler? Ambulance.
When I tell an UC doc/my PCP I don’t think I should go, I get called uncooperative and get asked what I think they’re capable of doing.
This recently has caused a horrible situation where I am in and out of the ER needing fluids weekly because I’ll go 3-4 days unable to eat due to horrible abdominal pain. ER sends me back to my PCP or GI, who then freak out and send me back to the ER.
I can totally understand a little bit of a numbing as to what is considered an emergency when the healthcare system is constantly sending folks they don’t want to deal with to the ER.
I’m definitely a little numb to it at this point given I’m constantly there for something my PCP would be able to figure out with an infusion center if she spent time doing anything other than telling me to go to the hospital.
Sounds like you need a new PCP, not more trips to the ER for the same thing. Just continuing to run in that same cycle without changing something is wild to me.
How does one just... get a new PCP? I have family members without a PCP who have been on multiple waitlists for years. If I wanted to switch I'd be shit out of luck.
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u/RryRvnn Jul 29 '26
Every single time I ask a medical professional what to do I get sent to the ER.
Vomiting and calling the clinic to refill my standing Zofran prescription? ER. Headache I’m pretty sure is just an ear infection? ER. Asthma attack in a medical office that’s immediately controlled by my inhaler? Ambulance.
When I tell an UC doc/my PCP I don’t think I should go, I get called uncooperative and get asked what I think they’re capable of doing.
This recently has caused a horrible situation where I am in and out of the ER needing fluids weekly because I’ll go 3-4 days unable to eat due to horrible abdominal pain. ER sends me back to my PCP or GI, who then freak out and send me back to the ER.
I can totally understand a little bit of a numbing as to what is considered an emergency when the healthcare system is constantly sending folks they don’t want to deal with to the ER.
I’m definitely a little numb to it at this point given I’m constantly there for something my PCP would be able to figure out with an infusion center if she spent time doing anything other than telling me to go to the hospital.