Let me talk about the inside story of the emergency department of the hospital. I am a general doctor 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 a lot more stitches than you expected for moderate trauma. It's not that the doctor's skills are poor or that he wants to cheat you. On the contrary, the doctor has replaced many relatively expensive medical supplies with superb suture technology, which greatly improves his workload and difficulty and reduces your expenses without affecting healing. Because ordinary sutures don't charge money.
In addition, it is not a mountain out of a molehill to repeatedly advise middle-aged and elderly people to be hospitalized for observation before treatment. But after hospitalization, the reimbursement rate is very high. And emergency reimbursement is very small.
Because we are doctors, we have seen many joys and sorrows and died of pain. Although we can't change the fact that it is expensive, we will try our best to find ways to make patients cheaper.