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 @9c039ef1 Last summer I was in the ED with my mom. Beside us was a teenage girl who'd been injured and apparently knocked unconscious at her soccer game. The girl was shaking. Her mom kept asking the intake coordinator, "How much will this cost? Maybe we should just go home and see how she's doing tomorrow?" A doc came out, took one look at the girl's eyes and said, "No. I'm sorry. We have to bring her in for observation." That poor mother got on her phone crying to her husband about the bill.