It may appear to you that I'm disagreeing with you when, in fact, I'm not. Perhaps I'm not expressing myself well. The only point I wished to make was that the emergency department doc had the final say in the matter, not the pdoc. Whoever deferred to whom is not my problem; I was just glad to leave the drama and go home. Really, I'm immobilized with depression at the moment and can't even think clearly. My apologies. I shouldn't be posting at all in this frame of mind.