# Was this ambulance ride nessecary?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-this-ambulance-ride-nessecary/526556>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 26, 2010, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-this-ambulance-ride-nessecary/526556 "2010-01-26T20:27:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-this-ambulance-ride-nessecary/526556/21 "2010-01-27T19:25:54Z")

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This thread just reminded me- a few years ago a medical assistant working in an urgent care center here in town died\* at work\* from an asthma attack. Case in point- you really want to go to a hospital if you’re having breathing problems.

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**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-this-ambulance-ride-nessecary/526556/22 "2010-01-27T19:29:23Z")

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You’ve just made me wonder why I don’t have an emergency inhaler for my husband in my purse (which comes with me wherever I go), **Alice.** 🙂

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**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2010, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-this-ambulance-ride-nessecary/526556/23 "2010-01-28T01:17:55Z")

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> [@ToeJam](#):
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> I agree the ambulance ride to the ER was def. better than hanging around “a big doctor’s office” sort of setting.  
> The ER would be qualified to **incubate** her, hook her up to Oxygen and prepare for the worst should things start to go down a very bad road.

I think you mean “intubate” as in sticking a tube into your body. Although your typo produces a funnier and toasty mental image.

I also vote that the ambulance ride was necessary. You can’t take the risk that someone suffering from a systemic allergic reaction will _probably_ be okay, because if things suddenly go bad, they’ll go _really_ bad.

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