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Jimlongley, always remember, as long as you are "with it" you can decline transport from EMS. If you tell them that you don't want to be transported and they take you anyway, you can legally sue the pants off of them. That said, the Paramedics around here, employed by a private EMS service which is attached to the local hospital, have a way of convincing/scaring people who don't need to go to the ER that they will die if they don't. I hear rumors that the medics get bonus pay if they convince a certain number of patients to go in with them since the hospital doesn't get paid unless the patient rides to the ER!