A friend of mine has a child with an allergy and was visiting Turkey. A family member of his (in Turkey) is a physician, and said that in Turkey nobody uses ep

A friend of mine has a child with an allergy and was visiting Turkey. A family member of his (in Turkey) is a physician, and said that in Turkey nobody uses epi pens and allergies are generally never the cause of visits to the ER. Is this true? What's going on?