Originally Posted by ottyhotties

you clearly don't understand triage or have spent much time in an emergency room. My ex wife had several visits to the emergency room and they treat the pain you come in with, then the doctor comes in (sometimes a nurse) with patient instructions. Those instructions are often to go see your doctor and follow up on this and that suspicion the doctor might have had. A lot of those suspicions and recommendations for more testing found in patient instructions are done to prevent later lawsuits and put the ball back into the patients court.

She went to the emergency room for an infection related to Crohn's disease. The emergency room was tasked in that visit with treating the infection, the emergency room is not tasked to be the primary physician care specialist.

Triage in her visit probably classified her low level in the emergency room and someone coming in with chest pains was high level. She probably had a long wait while they focused on people having chest pains because that is what triage is in a emergency room.