Yeah sure, broken arm isn't an emergency but where else are you going to get is set? Just because it's not strictly an emergency doesn't mean you don't need treatment, saying things like this is just asking for problems. Someone may not be able to physically afford waiting around for hours and hours when they really do have a medical emergency, there have been so many cases where people get turned away from hospitals only to get worse. It's not the people that need to toughen up but the government that needs to find a way to better staff the hospitals so that it doesn't take 8 hours for someone to have a broken arm x-rayed and put in a cast.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I know. I've been to the emergency room for mental problems, but I still made the post. I meant emergency as in life-threatening, which is generally what most people think when they hear the word "emergency."

by Anonymous 13 years ago

People just need to think about these things, I get it, your not dying but and emergency room isn't actually an emergency room, therefore post like this are just wrong. If your have an actual emergency your either in the ambulance or already being treated, the emergency room are for people with non-life threatening illness to be treated...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Emergency: a sudden, urgent, usually unexpected occurrence or occasion requiring immediate action. --Random House Dictionary. Ahem. IMMEDIATE ACTION.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Haha, no kidding. My brother split his chin open at summer camp but they butterfly taped it and he went home the next day at the same time as everyone else. He got home around two, and my mom had him take a shower before he went to the hospital because you can't shower for a couple days after getting stitches. And then we went to the "emergency room". Some emergency.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yes I know the actual definition of emergency but anyone who requires 'immediate action' isn't sitting in the emergency room. People who are in need of 'immediate action' are getting the treatment they need. Have you ever been in an emergency room with a person who is obviously dying? No because there in the hospital getting the treatment they need but have you ever been in the emergency room with someone with a gash on their leg that while it requires stitches it's no longer gushing blood. Sure if you warp your leg up it might heal on it's own but it's better to be safe then sorry

by Anonymous 13 years ago