This is mildly infuriating. Maybe it's different outside the small towns and rural areas I grew up in, but there I would be comfortable wagering the majority of

This is mildly infuriating. Maybe it's different outside the small towns and rural areas I grew up in, but there I would be comfortable wagering the majority of the people visiting the ER are there to get pills. I broke my leg from a rock climbing fall and was taken to a hospital in Tullahoma, TN. The fracture was difficult to see on the x-ray and the ER doc thought I just had a aprain. While filling out my paperwork, he asked me what kind of pain medication I wanted. When I told him I didn't want anything, he jerked to a stop and looked up at me when an incredulous look. While in college at Johnson City, TN, I ran into a wall head-first diving for a basketball in a pickup game. My buddy took me to the ER to have them check on the concussion I had, and while we waited, someone walked in, asked what the wait time was, said, "that's too long and we'll be back later," and left. They got us into triage quickly, but we ended up waiting several hours (with a lot of folks in the ER clearly there to get pills) before my friend told the receptionists that we weren't there to get drugs, we just wanted to have them check to make sure my brain was okay. Within a matter of minutes they had me back to radiology and out the door shortly thereafter.