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18k?

• x0x0 8y ago
  18k is high, but it costs serious money to run a level 1 trauma center. In particular, it must be staffed enough to provide all specialties 24x7.
  • dagenix 8y ago
    It's reasonable it's not cheap. 18k, however, is ridiculous.
  • kalleboo 8y ago
    If you want to avoid the fee, can you tell the ambulance drivers to take you to a shittier ER with a lower cost?
  • pas 8y ago
    But then what OP said, that people had to be called in makes no sense, right? There were people there anyway, an attending physician looked at the child, talked to the parents (all doctors want is your anamnesis!) determined that nothing to worry about, maybe keep them in observation, and that's it. There's not even a word about doing an Xray/CT or any kind of imaging to check for internal bleeding. Probably the "activation" of the Trauma Unit is that when they called 911, the hospital booked them and was ready to receive them.