I wouldn’t go to the hospital either. It’s funny because the more one tries to work and escape debt and financial ruin, the higher the chances are of needing to take an unexpected hospital and getting an unreasonably high medical bill.
Some people aren’t in a place to pay insane medical debt, especially in the case where a multitude of tests need to get run and a problem isn’t found.
There are a lot of weird things that can happen with the body that some have observed goes away with time, and this “wait it out” approach is sadly encouraged by the American healthcare system because the insanely high bills from previous emergency situations (coupled with the subpar treatment) are typically not worth the price.
Ah sorry, I am in the EU, so I guess it is slightly different. I see your point if this risks paying yourself. These visits cost me 0$ even in countries I frequent but am not resident in the EU.
But yes, since this scare, I definitely go faster, especially considering how bad this can get. You might wake up in a better or in a far worse state.
A stroke deprives your brain of oxygen, you literally do not want to ‘wait it out’ or ‘sleep on it’ cause you might not wake up from it and the damage is acute, to put it bluntly.
On top of that it sounds like this person was a contractor, which means their health insurance situation was probably even more shaky and/or non-existent
Some people aren’t in a place to pay insane medical debt, especially in the case where a multitude of tests need to get run and a problem isn’t found.
There are a lot of weird things that can happen with the body that some have observed goes away with time, and this “wait it out” approach is sadly encouraged by the American healthcare system because the insanely high bills from previous emergency situations (coupled with the subpar treatment) are typically not worth the price.