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To: bentway who wrote (934945)	5/14/2016 11:52:07 AM
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ast January, Malcolm Bird took his 1-year-old daughter, Colette, to the local emergency room. His wife had accidentally cut the young girl's pinky finger while clipping her fingernails, and it had begun to bleed. They were nervous, first-time parents who wanted a doctor's opinion. Colette turned out to be completely fine. A doctor ran her finger under the tap, stuck a Band-Aid on her pinky, and sent the family home. A week later, something else showed up at home: a $629 hospital bill for the Band-Aid and its placement on Colette's finger. THAT BILL WAS NOT FOR A BAND-AID. It was for the parents' stupidity and abuse of the Emergency Room (operative term: Emergency). Emergency does not mean, "If you see a spec of blood, come in." It means if you have an emergency. Something that needs to be treated and it can't wait until tomorrow. If they had called me I would gladly have rendered my professional opinion: There is nothing you can do to your child's pinky finger while cutting nails that warrants a visit to the ER. Unless you were using a butcher knife to do it.

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