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This is what happens with a perverse, for-profit medical-industrial complex: snake oil. Also worth mentioning is the fake "emergency rooms" and "urgent care" f
by BrailleHunting 10y ago
This is what happens with a perverse, for-profit medical-industrial complex: snake oil.
Also worth mentioning is the fake "emergency rooms" and "urgent care" fly-by-night shops which have sprung up on the side of roads in much of the Southern US. People will inevitably die because of the confusion and misrepresentation caused by these shoddy scammers.
- lawless123 10y ago> "emergency rooms" and "urgent care" fly-by-night shops which have sprung up on the side of roads in much of the Southern US. What are these?
- djsumdog 10y agoI too am curious about this. I can't find anything on "fake emergency rooms." I wonder if he's talking about those homeless health clinics on wheels. I always thought that they were staffed by volunteer or non-profit funded Doctors, Nurse Practitioners, etc.
- shiftpgdn 10y agoThere are probably 2-3 of them in any major affluent suburb in the south. They are typically built into a strip center or on a pad site near one (because of the cheap land.) Most of them are emergency rooms by the letter of the law only meaning they don't have an operating theater, mri/ct machines, huge amounts of trained staff. They typically have a few stabilization tools and a nurse practitioner on staff. Anecdotally I was sent to one by my primary care doctor because she thought I was having a heart attack as a result of month long strep/sinus infection. They gave me a bag of saline and charged me $1000 (insurance ER rate) for the privilege. I think these places exist only to bilk parents with crying children in the middle of the night and people who don't know any better.