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<blockquote data-quote="tRidiot" data-source="post: 1581825" data-attributes="member: 9374"><p>With all due respect, if you had any idea how much BS and how many druggies your ER doc had to sift through before getting to you, you might see things differently. Not to mention that even WITH further testing he probably wouldn't have known much if anything more about you.</p><p></p><p>I regularly send people packing with back pain with instructions to follow up with their regular doctor with no testing whatsoever. And alot of the time no drugs either, so count your blessings you got anything. The possibility of finding something in your back causing your problems is next to zero in the ER... just so you know. Plain xray films will help rule out a broken vertebrae, that's about it. And the odds of a broken vertebrae outside of a fall or a relatively major auto accident are extraordinarily slim.</p><p></p><p>And time is also short in the ER... ER is there to treat acute problems, save lives and get people through until they can see their regular doctor. In-depth investigations are more appropriate for your regular doctor.</p><p></p><p>Matter of fact... I think I'll make a thread about appropriate use of the ER... our country in general needs a whole helluva lot of education about that, and even this board, which is generally filled with a lot of common-sense-type folks, often still have misconceptions.</p><p></p><p><edit> You also said your doc told you it was your back... but you didn't say WHAT it was. What did your doc find that you think could have been treated differently in the ER? Seriously, I'm asking what is the problem and I will explain to you MY philosophy of how to treat that in the ER and as an outpatient, as I've done both.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tRidiot, post: 1581825, member: 9374"] With all due respect, if you had any idea how much BS and how many druggies your ER doc had to sift through before getting to you, you might see things differently. Not to mention that even WITH further testing he probably wouldn't have known much if anything more about you. I regularly send people packing with back pain with instructions to follow up with their regular doctor with no testing whatsoever. And alot of the time no drugs either, so count your blessings you got anything. The possibility of finding something in your back causing your problems is next to zero in the ER... just so you know. Plain xray films will help rule out a broken vertebrae, that's about it. And the odds of a broken vertebrae outside of a fall or a relatively major auto accident are extraordinarily slim. And time is also short in the ER... ER is there to treat acute problems, save lives and get people through until they can see their regular doctor. In-depth investigations are more appropriate for your regular doctor. Matter of fact... I think I'll make a thread about appropriate use of the ER... our country in general needs a whole helluva lot of education about that, and even this board, which is generally filled with a lot of common-sense-type folks, often still have misconceptions. <edit> You also said your doc told you it was your back... but you didn't say WHAT it was. What did your doc find that you think could have been treated differently in the ER? Seriously, I'm asking what is the problem and I will explain to you MY philosophy of how to treat that in the ER and as an outpatient, as I've done both. [/QUOTE]
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