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I had a friend who was a nurse who worked in the emergency room. She said she couldn't stand how when the patients came in "they always had to act out their problems. Like if somebody had stomach problems they couldn't just say they had stomach problems, they had to wrinkle their faces and bend over and hold their stomachs."

I didn't understand why she didn't understand that. Especially considering the hospital where she worked. So many of us are living without health insurance and trying to make it the best way we can. Affordable healthcare is such a serious issue in this country. For many of us, and by many of us I mean me, by the time we get to the hospital we aren't acting out our problems. We wait so long that we are holding stomachs in that would otherwise fall to the ground. 

We are not middle school teenagers trying to get out of science by running to the nurse's office. We are not trying to inconvenience you with our petty woes. Our bodies break down and on top of everything else we have to deal with, we have to find time and money from a seemingly limited supply already and deal with people who think we have energy enough, to act out.