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How to refuse Ambulance trips to ER?

Fri, 11/16/2012 - 16:05

I'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?

Comments

but maybe it's more my fault,

Submitted by mwolf on Tue, 2016-10-11 - 17:40
but maybe it's more my fault, I need to make sure to notify people I'm with at all times, don't call emergency, and if I'm alone, there's nothing I can do, I'd leave the house more if I wasn't afraid of some (expletive) calling emergency 

Thanks.  I've refused

Submitted by realpatriot2 on Sun, 2017-03-05 - 22:10
Thanks.  I've refused ambulance trips to ER only to be ignored, then 5150d because I refused their "medical care".  It feels like I"m not considered a capable adult anymore and like i'm being kidnapped and assaulted   Where does it say I loose my right to say no to a volunteer fire department and for profit ambulance company.  Now I'm terrified to let anyone call 911 but that does not mean they'll listen to my wishes.What are the consequences of a 5150 after you are released (that night) from the ER and thousands of dollars of "care"?

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