Point 3...
Agree wholeheartedly. We, as worried parents, have frequently taken our boy to A&E for something as trivial as "he won't stop crying". Despite wasting the time and trying the patience of the doctors we were always told that they would rather see 100 healthy babies than miss the one that was really ill.
(Mork, Mon 15 Mar 2010, 11:16, 2 replies)

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peados.
( browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Mon 15 Mar 2010, 16:42, closed)

I heard much the same when I called the police and it turned out to be a false alarm.
(I thought my Down's brother, who needs 24-hour care and can't be out unsupervised, had gone missing. Turns out he was staying in respite care that night and my parents hadn't told me before going out. D'oh.) The copper said I'd acted responsibly and that they'd rather deal with false alarms than miss a genuine case.
( Bob Todd whee, Mon 15 Mar 2010, 18:37, closed)