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Why didn't you call an ambulance? When I worked for the redcross during civil service I always wondered why we have patients with nose bleed or some other bubu to drive in and then we take back some guy with a broken leg or life threatning pneumonia that got in himself.

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Actually, my big mistake was not keeping the taxi I'd taken from work (normally, I take the tram & train) to pick him up at school.

He was in pain, but not anything I'd consider taking the ambulance for (and the driving distance from his school to the emergency room is ~2-3 km). I shouldn't have gotten my car, and instead just have dumped him into the taxi. Norway covers a share of the taxi fare when it's for medical reasons.

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