<prompt> Human: Tl;dr: I was evacuated to a nearby hospital via helicopter and Im now stuck with a 24,000 bill. Am I seriously forced to pay this?Preface: Ive played a lot of contact sports in my life so I feel I have a pretty good understanding of when Im injured.This happened quite a few months ago. I was simply watering a few plants that I have on my outside patio area and slipped on wet concrete. I landed on my elbows butt first and then the back head did hit the cement but not full force.I was laid out for a good 2 minutes attempting to recover. I never lost consciousness and my head didnt hit nearly as hard as the few concussions I received playing football and hockey. However, my mother watched the whole thing happen and out of reflex immediately called 911 for an ambulance to check me out before coming to my aid herself.Ambulance arrives emts are checking me out. I tell them the story and tell them I feel fine, not good enough to play in my hockey match that night, but fine. After hearing my story of events Emts declare they are taking me to a nearby hospital to run concussion checks on me. I refused. They load me onto a stretcher non the less. I repeat that I feel fine its not neccessary. So Im riding in the ambulance pissed off that I never finished watering my flowers thinking about all the daylight that is being wasted. This all happens in a 10min span of time. As they loaded me in I start to feel like shit, probably because I just took a pretty good spill. Next thing I know theyre opening the ambulance doors and putting me onto a helicopter because the holiday traffic today wont get you to the hospital quickly enough Though, the helicopter ride was pretty fucking sweet, after being at the hospital and allowing them to run all the tests they wanted they find I dont have a concussion or internal bleeding. I am left with only a few bruises a memory of a dope ass helicopter ride and a bill of over 24,000 for said dope ass ride. Can I legally not pay this bill? Its fucking horseshit  <response>: Lol. OP, no, you do not have a pretty good understanding of when Im injured when it comes to brain trauma. I personally lost a friend who hit the back of his head on pavement. He got up, felt fine, went to bed, and woke up speaking incoherent gibberish. The base of his spine had cracked and his brain wasnt getting enough oxygen for about 12 hours at that point. By the time they got him to the hospital, his brain was dying. He fell into a coma and did not wake up. They took him off life support and his mom waited with him in the room while he died.So, yeah. You should be thankful you were so privileged to be checked out so immediately and thoroughly. 