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In the US, 70-80% of the time they just send people with unpassed kidney stones home from the ER. With painkillers and a giant bill.
by HWR_14 2y ago
In the US, 70-80% of the time they just send people with unpassed kidney stones home from the ER. With painkillers and a giant bill.
- Nifty3929 2y agoAt least you get the painkillers. Not sure what else they'd really do for non-emergent kidney stones anyway. Painkillers is probably the best you can hope for, and getting them quickly and sent home sounds like a great outcome to me.
- HWR_14 2y agoWell, it's not instant in the US either. All ERs triage and kidney stones are low priority. I'm not sure how long is standard, but even if admission took less than an hour, you're still low in the MD's priority.
- mancerayder 2y agoA friend just had them and he was in the hospital a few hrs while they IV flushed him with some chemical magic that supposedly helped dissolve them. I think the bill with insurance was 250.
- m00x 2y agoHappened to me in Canada too, minus the painkillers.