Fru-Fru-Brigade

We're a Bunch of Weirdos

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Hi! We're a fairly diverse plural system with various origins and interests! ADHD, autism, likely BPD. Uhm... Yeah, gonna work on this a bit more soon?



pervocracy
@pervocracy

you know what's cool? Poison Control Centers. there's a zillion different poisons that all do different things under different circumstances, and a regular ER doctor is not going to have it all memorized. so if someone comes in with a toddler that drank some obscure chemical only used in the alpaca breeding industry, the ER doctor calls the nearest Poison Control Center, and any time of day or night, free of charge, they will get a live toxicology expert on the line that can talk through this specific case with them. and they will escalate the weird calls as high as they need to. Poison Control knows the one guy on Earth who has dedicated his life to treating pediatric alpacin toxicity, and by God they will put him directly on the phone with you.

they also offer a poisoning advice and triage service to the public: in the US, you can call 800-222-1222 or go to poison.org and they don't just call an ambulance, they are able to resolve 70% of their calls with home treatment

(which is probably mostly a euphemism for "caller reassured that the substance wasn't actually poisonous or they weren't actually exposed," but still, saves an ER visit)

this feels like exactly the sort of thing that would get replaced with a self-help database to save a few bucks so I just think it's incredibly cool that this service still exists to provide direct connections to human experts.


ValerieElysee
@ValerieElysee
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in reply to @pervocracy's post:

Yeah, I called them when I accidentally one took too many tylenol. It was super quick and they were very nice about reassuring me that my liver would be fine.