What's Wrong With Society Today

New entry in my ongoing series "What's Wrong With Society".  My last one got lots of reactions (good and bad) and caused me to wedge my foot firmly in my mouth for a time... OK here goes.

Here in Indianapolis (and likely elsewhere around the country), a local hospital was running billboard ads that advertise its pediatrician ward.  That's all well and good, but check out the ads they are running.  They list an ailment, followed by the name of the hospital.  I had no idea you should take your child to a hospital in these cases!

Bee Sting? (name of hospital then listed)

99-degree fever? (name of hospital then listed)

There are more that I cannot recall at this time that are equally trivial concerns.

What else?  Hangnail?  Papercut?  Stubbed Toe?  I mean, come on, a 99-degree fever is a reason to rush your kid to the hospital?  I think not.  When I was a kid, I would run a 103-degree fever with profuse sweating, shaking, and diarrhea and I would never go to the hospital.  Liquids, meds, and rest and I would get better within a day or so.  I wonder how many parents out there laugh at these billboards and how many just read them and get all freaked out that they are "bad parents".