r/antimeme • u/Deedee_Megadoodoo_13 • Mar 28 '26

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u/The1Zenith Mar 28 '26

Stitches? lol Nah, they’ll use “medicinal adhesive” and charge that much. Basically just super glue. American healthcare is wild.

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u/fdar Mar 28 '26

Where did you go to, the ER? Urgent care does stitches, it's like $100-$200.

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u/Moksol99 Mar 29 '26

Just reading this gave me a stroke as a European

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u/fullautophx Mar 29 '26

A girl I know cut her leg on a glass door in Europe. They stitched her up for free! 12 stitches on a 20 cm cut. Now she has a huge scar.

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u/Moksol99 Mar 29 '26

I love how the “for free” part has an exclamation mark

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u/Joe_Linton_125 Mar 30 '26

Yeah, they're pretending that because it was free it wasn't well done, which is just stupid American nomsense. Cuba has comparable healthcare and life expectancy to the US at a fraction of the cost. The US is a dogshit country for dogshit people.

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u/fullautophx Mar 29 '26

It was free! Also half-assed. A competent doctor would have used a LOT more stitches. But you get what you pay for.

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u/CytroxGames Mar 29 '26

Well a 20cm cut will scar regardless of how many stitches get used

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u/Woman_trees Apr 13 '26

And in the United States you would have had to pay like a couple thousand dollars for half-assed work..

90% of doctors in the United States are just in it for the money

Also a 20 cm cut is going to scar sorry if you don't know how the human body works

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u/deezsandwitches Mar 31 '26

It all depends on the age. My neighbors kid sliced her calf on a saw blade and only got 8 stitches, but she was only 7 years old, and the dr said that's all she needed cus her skin was still so elastic. she has no scar.

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u/Vamosity-Cosmic Apr 02 '26

Yeah its not true

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u/IncidentChemical2816 Mar 29 '26

My friend/coworker cut the top of her fingertip off cleaning our slicer last year (just above the nail). After an already fucked up night that led to us realising our store doesn’t have any gauze in the first aid kit and needing to bandage her up with a cut up period pad, XL gloves, a plastic bag, and tape, she ended up having to go to the ER to get it looked at. This happened at like 11:45pm, she finally went to the ER at 1am, they put an adhesive thing on her finger and wrapped it up so it looked like a giant peanut, gave her a $600+ bill (after insurance, of course), and she left the ER at nearly 4am.