If you are dead, You should have gone to the doctor
My wife is 9 months pregnant, and she had a rough weekend, her stomach has been hurting her, and she had odd irregular contractions. So she got online to look up some information about false labor. One of the sites had a caveat to the effect “True labor ends with childbirth. Therefore once you have had your baby you can be sure that you were in true labor.”
Using the same logic, here’s how to know when to seek emergency care.
- If you bleed to death, the cut needs stitches
- If a broken bone heals crooked, you should go in and have it set.
- If you heart stops beating, the pain in your chest was a heart attack.
Just in case you were wondering.
June 27th, 2007 at 2:55 pm
Good stuff Mark. I always wanted a foolproof way to know when a wound needed stitches. How’s this blogging thing working out? I have already leanred soemthing useful. We now know Ryan should have had his arm set. This stuff really works.