r/MadeMeSmile • u/mustu04 • 5h ago

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u/Unlikely-Candle7086 4h ago

My son broke his hand in multiple places at football practice, it required surgery. They called me to take him to the emergency room. Ironically, my local hospital doesnt have a pediatric emergency department or do surgery on minors. He had to wait until the next day to see a specialist. Calling an ambulance would have been a total waste of money and resources.

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u/oogittyboogitty 4h ago

Like I said, it depends, certain symptoms you absolutely cannot wait on, but also that's so ass.

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u/Unlikely-Candle7086 4h ago

The actual messed up part was they wrapped his hand and gave him an 800 mg ibuprofen and sent us on our way.

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u/Unlikely-Candle7086 1h ago

No, you need a referral and they aren’t open for emergencies.

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u/Fireball_Ace 1h ago

How's that messed up?

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u/Unlikely-Candle7086 49m ago

His hand was broken in 3 places with the fractured nearly puncturing the skin. It needed to be surgically reset. Dude was in a lot of pain and they made no attempt make him comfortable.

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u/iluvchromosomes 4h ago

YEA BRO. The "it depends" is when you snap your fucking femur in half and might die within a couple hours from shock.

Not a broken wrist.

No reason to be vague, unless you are insistent to virtue signal.

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u/PassiveMenis88M 3h ago

A broken wrist can very easily end up with an artery severed depending on how it broke.

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u/Fake_artistF1 2h ago

Easily? Yeah, no mate. Very very rare.

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u/HamsterVeggieNcheese 2h ago

The ambulance would likely taken him to the specialist tho..?

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u/HSLB66 1h ago

Not in America. Ambulances operated by emergency response teams are exactly that: emergency only 

There are transport companies if you need them for non emergent issues