Thats certainly true, but not always so.
There's a strata of use cases that left in limbo in your argument.
Im a basketball player. I may have a microtear of a ligament from a 9pm game. The ortho guy, the pain doc, the sports med and my pcp are closed at 9pm.
I have no options but to go to the ER. I know because I've been there. Multiple times.
My kid is breathing and I can see his ribcage from forced breathing? If its past 5pm, its definitely an ER trip.
I pierced my hip with a chain link fence and need irrigation for the wound? ER trip
None of these injuries are life threatening.
I'm not poor. My time is super valuable. i charge some clients $700/hour. Yet in each case, I spent > 4 hours in ER !
Now- I will literally wake up MD friends and ask them to write me a script to the 24hr pharmacy instead of waiting in ER for meds.
There's a strata of use cases that left in limbo in your argument.
Im a basketball player. I may have a microtear of a ligament from a 9pm game. The ortho guy, the pain doc, the sports med and my pcp are closed at 9pm.
I have no options but to go to the ER. I know because I've been there. Multiple times.
My kid is breathing and I can see his ribcage from forced breathing? If its past 5pm, its definitely an ER trip.
I pierced my hip with a chain link fence and need irrigation for the wound? ER trip
None of these injuries are life threatening. I'm not poor. My time is super valuable. i charge some clients $700/hour. Yet in each case, I spent > 4 hours in ER !
Now- I will literally wake up MD friends and ask them to write me a script to the 24hr pharmacy instead of waiting in ER for meds.