I'm glad Sam is okay, but something is fishy about requiring an ambulance ride to another hospital. I don't think that can really be the policy... recommending a trip to the other hospital and offering an ambulance, sure, that's entirely reasonable... but requiring it as a blanket policy, especially when they think she's fine? That seems like a money grab to me. I definitely hope it was covered by the insurance!
I'm 100% certain that it is policy with pediatric patients, especially ones as young as sam. It's a specialty thing that not everyone is going to be trained in. Especially the emergency room in a little out of the way proxy hospital like Arrow Springs in lebanon.
It's an entirely reasonable recommendation, it's the requirement part that's making my teeth itch. Patients (or their parents) have a right to refuse treatment, and that includes riding in an ambulance. It's not that going to another hospital to get Sam checked out was unreasonable at all, it was absolutely the right thing to do, especially if none of their doctors are qualified pediatricians. It's just that they have absolutely zero right to require you to ride in an ambulance to do that
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I took Stephani for one of those "unnecessary" trips to the ER when she was about 15-16 months old (walking but not real well yet), because I thought she'd eaten a cigarette butt out of my ex-husband's ashtray. It turned out that she just had one in her mouth (which I removed before I hauled her to the hospital) and she was fine.
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I took Stephani for one of those "unnecessary" trips to the ER when she was about 15-16 months old (walking but not real well yet), because I thought she'd eaten a cigarette butt out of my ex-husband's ashtray. It turned out that she just had one in her mouth (which I removed before I hauled her to the hospital) and she was fine.
It happens. *hugs*
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