Why everyone gets admitted

February 2, 2007

Because you can never be sure if that benign chest pain is a heart attack.



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1 Anonymous February 5, 2007 at 11:20 pm

Moonlighting right now. ER doc whispers to me that a 26 year old CP left AMA. THe 26 year old asked him, “why you admiting me?” ER doc told him simply, you had Chest pain. I have no choice.

The ER doc told me this in a matter of fact way, and that the kid shouldn’t have left AMA.

It’s a shame what our society has come to.

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