I agree. I was in the ER with Rocky Mountain Spotted fever (my white blood cell count had dropped below 80,000 and I had a fever of 104) right next to what the nurse called a "frequent flyer", a mother who had brought her daughter in with a headache. Apparently she came in several times a week for minor complaints…

Why not make her pick up all the dog shit? I mean ALL of it? She can start in So. Carolina and work her way West through all the states, cleaning up dog shit from public thoroughfares. Maybe that way she can pay back in kind the money taxpayers have had to waste to have ambulances pick up that piece of shit time…

I do apologize. It's late here, and I am tired. I also have a government job (I can't specify further because I need that job to eat and don't want to lose it) that requires me to deal with applications for entitlements and to read documents all day long related to that. When I started, I thought I could somehow make…

You can pretty much flowchart it.

uh. I just hate it when people give Republicans a reason to hate socialized medicine and a safety net. Seriously want to punch this woman for making things harder for people truly in need.

I believe I specified "through community service," not monetary fine. It should kinda jump out at you, what with being the final words in the entire paragraph.

Officials say what Medicaid doesn't pay, taxpayers will have foot the rest of the bill, more than $400,000.

Well, if they don't have a car or reliable/timely public transport, I can see that. Nobody wants to be the reason their kid died, regardless of whatever the reason could be - remember, if you're a physician you're already in the top 1% of the public, in regards to medical training... basically, almost everyone who…

But is that because of lazy people, or parents who are overly anxious about their children's conditions? I can imagine first time mothers freaking out about symptoms before they become familiar with what illness looks like in children, which might explain the high number of pediatric cases?

This woman probably knows how to call a taxi or take public transit. I doubt this was her "only option"

And yet, when my brother had severe abdominal pains a few years ago (when he and I were studying in Melbourne, Australia) and called for an ambulance, they told him to get a taxi to take him to hospital. He got to the Monash Medical Centre Accident and Emergency ward where he was later discovered to have gallstones…

My mom is both a former emergency room nurse & the former director of EMS for NYC. Because of all I've learned from her, calling an ambulance has always been sort of sacrosanct thing, something reserved for a moment when I'm completely incapacitated by a condition that would merit my jumping to the top of the triage…

I had quite the opposite problem. I fainted at the sight of my house on fire, and an ambulance (which always comes with the fire department) made me go to the hospital. I tried to resist, but I guess there are some liability issues, where if they think you might really need to go, they'll get you to go. I knew I had…

As a paramedic, I can say this is nothing new or surprising. However, it's a problem easily fixed. You arrive on scene and express great concern that this might be serious. Listen intently. Say that that you're afraid it cardiac in nature. Then pull out the biggest, thickest needle you have and tell them you have to…

Pretty sad for someone to feel that is the only way they can get around :/.

He also looks like gollum in a bad toupee.

I can do that, but I look like a crazed chimpanzee. How she does that while still looking cute I don't claim to understand.

I do have a bit of a crush on him...last fall, my brother graduated from FSU Film School, and after the graduation ceremony they showed all of the graduates' final short films. Seth Rogen's wife, who is a graduate from the program, was one of the featured guests there (she had just released a film she'd directed and…

I have a theory about that. I think it has something to do with that unkempt, swept around hair of his. It's like the earlier forward swept hair that Beiber had. I think it warrants further research.

At least Harry Styles is sort of cute-ish and has the whole British thing going. Justin Bieber sort of looks like the love child of Gollum and all the boys I knew in middle school when they went through their "I listened to one Tupac song, clearly I am the most hardcore gangsta who has ever lived" phase.