I took a friend to the emergency room at 3am Saturday morning.

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92. I hear these things and I wonder if we have the full story...

Both my wife and I have had to use the ER at different hospitals in entirely different cities within the last six months.

Mine was for a broken ankle, and her issue turned out to be a non-issue.

So for her, she drove herself to the hospital with chest pains and walked in and immediately was rushed off to a room and was swarmed by medical technicians. Scans, blood work, everything was done quickly and efficiently. It turned out she had some very potent acid reflux from eating something different the night before. Nobody asked for paperwork or insurance information until she was considered "stable."

For me, ankle snapped and we called 911. Amberlamps came and took me to the hospital in the city we were staying in. Rushed into ER, x-rays, and the master orthopedic surgeons descended with their contraptions and pokers. Only once it was deemed that I was able to think straight was I asked for insurance information.

Was your experience not in the United States?