Is that right? Did you really say that?

If your hospital is a public one, could you ask for a cab voucher? Once I was told they needed my bed in A & E at 2 am after telling my husband (at about 10 pm after we had been there since 9 am the previous morning) that he could go home. They said I'd be kept overnight and sent to the EMU ward, and would be reassessed in the morning. I knew he would have had a beer when he got home and that he wouldn't drive, even although he would have been well under the limit. I refused to pay $120.00 for a cab, as if I had known that they were going to discharge me that night, I would have gone home with him four hours before. They offered me a cab voucher (they must have really wanted that bed)!!! and I accepted. At least I got to sleep in my own bed for a few hours. As it happened, I was called back to the hospital by my neurosurgeon's registrar the next morning, and spent the following nine days as their bed hogging guest.