You mean one should wait until the signs show with certainty that they're about to die before going to the ER? That'd a bit of a stretch :). Of course, I went b

You mean one should wait until the signs show with certainty that they're about to die before going to the ER? That'd a bit of a stretch :). Of course, I went because I thought it was an emergency (though I can see your definition of 'emergency' is quite different from mine). It's not like I went because I had cold.