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I haven't gotten free treatment, unless you want to count the xray in the ed I had to get since I was injured on the job transferring a patient that decided to go all dead weight on me, my back was injured so he would not hit the floor.
My family had to pay their inflated copay for the ED when my son fell out of a tree like everyone else.
Sometimes residents are treated at the ED, but then, they are students and employees of the university and covered under their health insurance.
Maybe you are referring to a private hospital. One local non-profit offers their own "health insurance" in which employees get treated there. I was treated once for free there, because I had been exposed to a patient with influenza. We are also treated for TB, given free chest xrays, when in the course of our jobs we are exposed. I think the hospital is acting in its own interest to prevent workers comp claims if they can help it.
In any profession like this, you will find some resentment. People are often non-compliant are in and out frequently and we are the ones that have to straighten out the utterly preventable crisis. After a while you wonder= why should I care more than the patient does?
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