Most docs these days aren’t fixing broken bones, straight to the ER. When I broke my first bone, 9th bd, 1980, doc had the services available to get me in a cast on the spot.

Don’t know if it’s a liability thing, or hyper-specialization, but I wouldn’t expect a general practitioner to do more than read the X-ray and say, “Off you go.”

Some good news though! Been sent to the ER 3 times worried about my heart. No, I have zero heart issues despite smoking for 20 years and drinking for 30, but I’m kinda noid about it. Last time I was at my GP, they gave me an EKG and a reading right in the office!

American medicine: 5 steps forward, 4 steps back, don’t be unlucky.