A few years back I was hospitalised because of a bite on my arm from one of our cats (long story) and was given heavy doses of multiple antibiotics.
If that hadn't been treated so promptly I might have required surgery or might even have lost my arm (a nurse told me about someone who lost a leg to a cat bite!).
Edit: When I went to the hospital I had no idea how serious it was and turned up to the "Minor Injury Unit" - they had me in A&E and X-rayed within about 10 minutes!
Edit: Of course, having been in the hospital for 3 days rather than the expected hour or so I was fretting about car parking charges - turns out they are free at the point of parking....
Preventative medicine is that which is done before significant symptoms. The basic issue, people tend to heal from most things. So the worst case of losing an arm to a cat bite is extremely unlikely. Meanwhile your hospital trip had an cost.
Suppose the odds work out to 1:100,000 lost arm vs 300$ hospital treatment. Now a lost arm is expensive but it’s not 30 million dollars expensive.
Those numbers aren’t based on anything but that’s the kinds of calculations involved. And as I mentioned the winners seem to be extremely cheap options like vacations.
A few years back I was hospitalised because of a bite on my arm from one of our cats (long story) and was given heavy doses of multiple antibiotics.
If that hadn't been treated so promptly I might have required surgery or might even have lost my arm (a nurse told me about someone who lost a leg to a cat bite!).
Edit: When I went to the hospital I had no idea how serious it was and turned up to the "Minor Injury Unit" - they had me in A&E and X-rayed within about 10 minutes!
Edit: Of course, having been in the hospital for 3 days rather than the expected hour or so I was fretting about car parking charges - turns out they are free at the point of parking....