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Medical Emergencies
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this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2026
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Another thing that's common in America is that after you drive yourself to the emergency room, you sit in the parking lot for a while to see if you can get through the emergency situation on your own before going in, because you know you're going to sit for hours and hours waiting anyway.
Why risk being charged tens of thousands of dollars and losing your housing when you can wait in your car to see if you're gonna die. And if it's that bad, you can crawl toward the emergency room. And then maybe they'll come help you. Otherwise, you can just sit it out like you would be sitting in the waiting room and then just leave if you get through it yourself.
Unless you’re at a hospital where you have to pay for parking. I’m not paying just to sit in my car in the parking garage.
If I think I'm getting through it with no issue I'm not going to the hospital at all. The only time my family has driven to the emergency room without thinking we absolutely needed to go was for a sexual assault swab (that we knew would never get analyzed, but she wanted it done and I knew it was the best path towards her getting trauma treatment). Everything else was something like difficulty breathing during covid or during a smoke storm, possible anaphylaxsis, or a major concussion. Fortunately we get insurance where one go hits your annual deductible, so the rest are cheap.