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How to refuse Ambulance trips to ER?
Fri, 11/16/2012 - 16:05I've had several seizures over the past few years where I regain consciousness soon enough that a paramedic hasn't yet arrived but before I am not fully coherent until after I reach the hospital. My insurance has a high deductable for going to the emergency room, so I really don't want to go.
Each time that I've had a seizure, I have tried to refuse to let the paramedics take me to the hospital. After having a seizure, I just want to stay where I am and rest until I can get up and go on with lift. But they insist on doing it as a precaution. The paramedics standard procedure is to ask me a battery of questions over and over again. At first, I can hear them and understand them and can picture who the president is but I can't speak. Eventually I get to a point where I can barely speak but can remember his name (so the best that I can answer is something like "big ears, black") and can't remember whether they've asked me this question already. Eventually I am coherent enough (by the time that we reach the hospital) that I can say "I don't want to go, I don't need to go" but they take me in anyway
How do I stop them? At what point are they no longer allowed to insist on taking me?
I think the ADA should make
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2015-08-25 - 18:31
I think the ADA should make insurers pay for our emergency reponses (paramedics, ambulanev and E.R. costs). It's unfair discrimination against us to be strapped to the gurney, against our will, and force us to go to the E.R., then have to pay the entire expense because "it wasn't a medical emergency". No one can know for sure until being evaluated if it was a SEIZURE or a STROKE. They look alike. In fact, some people with epilepsy do have strokes!Have you ever experienced this?