America’s Health Care Costs Are Scaring Patients Away From the ER
The article goes on to describe how the parents drove the kid to the emergency room and waited to see if she would get a seizure or just process the Dramamine without consequence. What a horrible choice to face. This in unconscionable. inhuman and cruel. But the GOP and our President like it that way. Keep that in mind.
Two years ago, 36-year-old Lindsay Clark was facing a terrible decision.
Her 2-year-old daughter Lily had gotten into a small bottle of the anti-nausea drug Dramamine.
“It had a child lock on it, but I caught her sitting there with a bunch of white stuff in her mouth,” Clark says. “I immediately swept her mouth with my finger, but I wasn’t sure how many pills she ate.”
Clark had to decide: Should she take Lily to the emergency room?
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