If you are suddenly unable to speak or move your right arm and leg, or if you cannot breathe because there is a ton of bricks sitting on your chest, pick up the phone and call 911. We will take good care of you in the ED.
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ACEP News: Vol 32 – No 04 – April 2013But if you are the worried well, please feel free to have a seat in front of your computer. And if, after you engage in as much searching as it takes for you to get some sense of what the problem might be, you are still baffled, take out your health insurance card and see if there is a phone number for an “ask-a-nurse” line.
Please don’t call your doctor’s office and make an appointment for every little thing. He has very few open appointments. And the doctor shortage is intensifying, so this is only going to get worse.
Dr. Solomon teaches emergency medicine to residents at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh and is Medical Editor in Chief of ACEP News. He is a social critic and political pundit and blogs at www.bobsolomon.blogspot.com.
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