Originally Posted By: wfaulk
Originally Posted By: Redrum
As well as the benefit of not plugging up the system with head cold patience’s that take resources away from real emergency patients. However I’m sure a lot of head cold patients would be screaming when they get turned away from the ER.

I don't think anyone prefers to go to the ER.

One of the guys on my hockey team is an ER doc. He once had a young woman come in because of some strange bumps on her tongue. They were her taste buds.

People go to ER because they know where it is, or it's late at night and it's the only thing open to treat their perceived emergency. edit: or they've let whatever it is fester so long it's become an emergency.