That sounds like my experience at UNM
Yeah, when I was at UNM, I stepped on a needle, and it broke off in my foot.. I’d have dug it out myself if I could have turned my leg around enough to see what I was doing.
Went to Student Health Services, and the Dr. there wouldn’t do anything (that a rookie Army medic wouldn’t think twice about doing in the field) and sent me to the UNM hospital.
They called in an orthopedic surgeon who used a fluoroscope, and with an anesthesiologist and a cardiologist standing by in case I had a heart attack or something. It was insane.
They billed me $1000.00.... and that was 35 years ago.
Ever since then I’ve hated doctors who live in fear of lawyers.