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I'm guessing a bit here, but I bet the M.D. at the "urgent care center" isn't practiced at intubating, nor had the equipment at all. "Urgent Care" centers are not ERs, and do not provide the same level of care.

Many UC centers here in Jacksonville, FL will gladly see someone with a broken arm, X-ray it, and then send them to the ER to have it treated. This always comes as a surpise to the patient that didn't realize that UC centers provide a very low level of care.

They should really start calling them Non-appointment Family Clinic Centers.

Guessing at best is that the person had advanced COPD. CO² poisoning is many times right around the corner. I have family with this condition and have been to ER over it. People not trained to recognize CO² poisoning, may not realize how serious the event is. Blood gas for a normal person will be 35 to 50, COPD patients are 45 to 70. Death occurs at 180 + -. After seeing a person saved (gas level 156) by a level IV trauma center, does a real appreciation set in for how swift, and silent this killer can be.

If our government took the care of veteran's to the level it should be, we'd have leveled IV trauma centers at VA locations. Both party's of the government have been coddling the illegals, for so long you'd think they got the vote of the illegal! It's breaking the medical community's back here in the west. I'm still waiting for illegals to defend our country by joining our military (will die of old age first).

It's a crime to see the way this country treats it's veteran's who risked their all, vs an illegal pickers with all kinds of rights not earned!