We didn't have a hospital close buy, but we had a good old family doc "in town" - who stitched me up more than once and dealt with a few other things including a dislocation and another time a fracture... Hey, I survived and the scars are hardly noticeable.
I've taken my boys "in" for stitches etc. a few times too. Everybody lived and everyone was back on speaking terms within a few days. No lawyers, lawsuits, or other nonsense.
That reminds me ... a few years ago in the middle of chaos ... three kids in five years ... our family doctor was telling me how to glue the kids’ scalp wounds together, and how to diagnose ear infections.
I did have to call poison control once for advice because our 8-year-old slipped while putting diesel in one of the tractors and got soaked. Just wondering if they knew any decontamination tricks that I didn’t.
They were surprised that we let a “little” kid do stuff like that.