He notes,
Every ED has seen a patient, probably today, with “they saw me at the ER across town, but they didn’t do anything and I’m still sick”. While it makes some sense not to return to a restaurant that gave you a meal that wasn’t to your tastes, medicine is quite different.
The basic explanation is, if you show up at a new hospital for a continuing complaint, they're going to have to look at you as a complete unknown and may run tests or try courses of treatment that are redundant or have already been done.
Because the whole 'sharing of health records' thing is apparently not really off the ground yet at many institutions.
Repeated ER visits have happily not been a part of my life thus far, but I have made note of this advice, just in case.
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