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Can you expand on your second point, if you have a moment? I knew someone (in California) who crashed his bicycle on a curb in front of a number of people. He

Can you expand on your second point, if you have a moment? I knew someone (in California) who crashed his bicycle on a curb in front of a number of people. He picked himself up and had a bloody but minor wound on his arm. But overall he was unharmed, just some surface bleeding. "Of course" multiple people called 911, and an ambulance arrived in short order. He had insurance, but he wasn't interested in getting in an ambulance, he wanted to look after his bike while wrapping up his light wound, and then treating it later. I'm told the exchange was awkward to say the least.

HuShifang 7y ago
Interesting. I'm an American, and once sustained a bloody but minor scrape of my knee when playing basketball in China. I went to the campus clinic/dispensary to obtain some bandages, since I couldn't find any that were the right size at the nearby convenience store; there, the staff practically tried to admit me, telling me that I had sustained a very serious injury and that I needed to take it seriously and start a course of antibiotics. After an awkward conversation concerning my refusal to take antibiotics without (what I deemed to be) sufficient cause (being mindful and wary of the resistance risks of an unnecessary course), and their belief that I was being disrespectful of their medical expertise, I left with a bottle of antibiotic pills that I never took. My knee was as good as new in a week or so. Point being, medical cultures can differ quite a lot, even from locality to locality, and the differences can be seen even in the handling of minor scrapes.
- Double_a_92 7y ago
  In China it's much more common to take antibiotica for minor reasons. Also big (area wise) skin wounds can get infected even if they are not bleeding.
  - Diederich 7y ago
    Correct me if I'm wrong: I think that a wound that is bleeding is a wound that's, at least in part, being protected from infection by 'internal positive pressure'. My grandpa taught me that; to let wounds bleed freely for a while, if possible, to reduce the chance of infection. I wonder how valid that is.
    - Double_a_92 7y ago
      Sounds plausible. At the very least it's a mechanical cleaning. Small pieces of dirt get washed away by the liquid blood.

HuShifang 7y ago

Interesting. I'm an American, and once sustained a bloody but minor scrape of my knee when playing basketball in China. I went to the campus clinic/dispensary to obtain some bandages, since I couldn't find any that were the right size at the nearby convenience store; there, the staff practically tried to admit me, telling me that I had sustained a very serious injury and that I needed to take it seriously and start a course of antibiotics. After an awkward conversation concerning my refusal to take antibiotics without (what I deemed to be) sufficient cause (being mindful and wary of the resistance risks of an unnecessary course), and their belief that I was being disrespectful of their medical expertise, I left with a bottle of antibiotic pills that I never took. My knee was as good as new in a week or so. Point being, medical cultures can differ quite a lot, even from locality to locality, and the differences can be seen even in the handling of minor scrapes.

Double_a_92 7y ago
In China it's much more common to take antibiotica for minor reasons. Also big (area wise) skin wounds can get infected even if they are not bleeding.
- Diederich 7y ago
  Correct me if I'm wrong: I think that a wound that is bleeding is a wound that's, at least in part, being protected from infection by 'internal positive pressure'. My grandpa taught me that; to let wounds bleed freely for a while, if possible, to reduce the chance of infection. I wonder how valid that is.
  - Double_a_92 7y ago
    Sounds plausible. At the very least it's a mechanical cleaning. Small pieces of dirt get washed away by the liquid blood.