Let me talk about the inside story of the emergency department of the hospital. I am a general practitioner and often work in the emergency department. It will not be less than 16 hours at a time, and it is still an extreme operation, sewing needles and changing medicines. If you find that there are more stitches in moderate trauma than you expected. It's not that the doctor's skills are poor, and I'm not trying to cheat you. On the contrary, the doctor replaced many relatively expensive medical supplies with superb suture technology, which greatly increased his workload and difficulty, and reduced your expenses without affecting healing. Because ordinary stitches don't charge.
In addition, after giving a preliminary diagnosis, it is not a fuss to repeatedly suggest that middle-aged and elderly people be hospitalized for observation and re-treatment. However, after hospitalization, the reimbursement rate is high. And emergency reimbursement is very small.
Because we are doctors, we have seen many joys and sorrows. Although we can't change the fact that it is expensive, we will find ways to make patients cheaper.