ULTRA-Frequent Fliers

Curious how docs out there deal with “ultra-frequent fliers.” First a story. We have a guy, parapalegic after an MVC, wheelchair bound, who has had 16 ED visits this week alone. Over the last few years hear had close to 500 discrete visits. This week he was here for abdominal pain, discharged, back 20 minutes later with chest pain, back 8 hours later with back pain, slept on the street corner in his wheel chair, came back in the next day for fever, discharged, came back the next day... ULTRA-Frequent Fliers
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