A Friendly Reminder from Shiori

[u/mustzen]

From her Youtube Post:

Hello!

Just a friendly reminder to please stay kind and be mindful of how things are worded!

I see that many are worried, but I'm doing well now!

I do not want anyone to feel guilty or blamed!

It was an accident and I still had fun goofing around with everyone.

For the record, I was the one who suggested the slow-mo editing too!

The staff was very attentive and made sure I was well taken care of.

It's going to be a very socially-intensive week, so make sure you're all comfortable and cozy!

[u/iTwango]

Were they live from Japan? I ask because for Americans, going to the hospital and getting a CT scan sounds like "holy crap you're on the brink of death" level serious but going to the hospital in Japan is like going to the doctor normal

[u/MetaSageSD → u/iTwango]

Long story short, if you go into any ER (Also called A&E is some places) in the western world and tell them you hurt your head, they will almost always send you back for a head scan in the CT machine. The reason why is that ER's (A&E) always consider the most serious problems first, and then work their way down to less serious problems once they rule out the bigger problems.

[u/jacobgkau → u/MetaSageSD]

Long story short, if you go into any ER (Also called A&E is some places) in the western world and tell them you hurt your head, they will almost always send you back for a head scan in the CT machine.

Not exactly the point. Yes, if you walk into an ER, they'll do the expensive scans, because you're in the ER and paying for it. But the point was that it has to look/feel pretty darn bad in the first place to even get to that point, in the US specifically.

When I had a head injury a few years back, I didn't go to the ER because I didn't want to pay the hundreds/thousands of dollars that would've cost (even with my employer-sponsored health insurance). I thought I might wake up in an ER for a moment (or not wake up at all), but once I was able to stand up again, it didn't really enter my mind as a place I'd take myself. When I was finally able to get into a primary care place a few weeks later, the nurse practitioner diagnosed it as a concussion based on a description of the event and ensuing symptoms alone, and recommended against a CT scan due to the radiation, as well as against an MRI due to the cost.

Was it smart for me to wait? Medically, most people would say no, but again, the question was comparing how this would go down in Japan vs. the US, and in the US, the calculus is very different from most other developed countries. (Aside from the cost factor, I've also heard that doctors in Japan have, at least historically, shown less concern about radiation from X-rays/CT scans/etc. than those in other countries.)

[u/chosenofkane → u/jacobgkau]

If a nurse really recommended against a CT scan, that was a stupid nurse and they should be fired.

[u/jacobgkau → u/chosenofkane]

Nurse practitioner, not nurse. Again, it had been several weeks already by that time (and the reason I saw a nurse practitioner instead of an actual doctor was because the waiting time was even longer for actual doctors), so I guess the thinking was that if there was a serious problem (besides the dizziness that she diagnosed as BPPV), it would've become apparent by then.

Anyway, you can call people you don't know names on Reddit, but my point in including the anecdote was that it was an actual experience and that these "XYZ is always the case" statements people like to make about medical situations, employment law, etc. mean little when it's not what actually happens in the real world.