The last time I was in the ER was in college when I had my appendix out. Before that I hadn't been since I was about 8 (and wound up having abdominal surgery for my kidneys).

if you have good health insurance, it is unusual to go to the er a lot.

are you counting urgent care AND er? If it is both, I've been five times in my adult life.

er: I've only been twice, for the same ailment. Now that organ is removed, so I won't be going back! So my first trip to the er as an adult was about 2 years ago...

Once as a toddler and twice as an adult (knock wood) and was admitted to the hospital as a result of one of those adult trips. But I've been lucky in that I don't have any chronic illnesses and have only broken one bone ever.

are you counting urgent care AND er? If it is both, I've been five times in my adult life.

I meant urgent care. 3 of mine were stitches, that may have been in urgent care, I don't remember the ones when I was a kid. I only went to the ER for the "bagel incident" because I didn't have a regular doctor and the ER was only a couple of blocks away, so it made more sense.

I've been, as an adult, twice for asthma, once for falling down a flight of stairs, and once for a dental abscess. I think that's it, though.

As a kid, my brother went a bunch of times, but I don't remember ever going as a kid. He was always falling out of trees and taking headers over his handlebars, though.

every time I went to urgent care, I shouldn't have gone. There were issues that I thought were emergencies that would have resolved on their own if I knew how to treat them properly OTC. the ER trips were non-negotiable.

Yes, the Speed Bump is by far the best NEL twist they've come up with.

Yeah, I like it a lot.

(Why you would ask a driver who got you hideously lost and clearly is totally unfamiliar with the part of the city you're in is a different question, of course.)

SERIOUSLY. That guy was the worst driver ever!

How many times have you been to the emergency room?

Once, as far as I know, and it was mostly a mistake (I didn't realize there was a walk-in clinic next door, or I would have gone there).

I've only been once for me. And that was when I broke my leg.

I've had two ER visits (once at age three for stitches in my head and once at 14 for a sprained ankle), plus one walk-in clinic visit last year for sinus infection (I was in between doctors, otherwise I would have gone to the doctor's office).

I've never broken a bone or had any kind of serious or chronic illness, so in general, I don't see doctors much.