I mean I’ve gone to countless common cold and knee-pain gigs during my time as a responder. It’s insane from what people call help for and what they think ambulances do. One guy attacked us when we couldn’t cure his flu on the spot
17 years ago on a Saturday night, just before bedtime, my 4yo son was being a dufus and managed to break his collarbone. Before we knew it was broken (but knew something was obviously wrong) I took him to the emergency room. We were stuck waiting about 6 hours to be seen. The nurse that triaged us was extremely apologetic and literally stated “I’m so sorry you’ve had to wait so long, we’re stuck having to see the drunken scraped knees first just because they came in an ambulance.”
I’m assuming that if my son were bleeding out he would be seen faster, but I’ve assumed that in non-life threatening situations that ambulances receive priority.
Interesting, now I wonder if our ambulances even carry people for bullshit reasons, if they don’t, it’d make sense that those are always actual emergencies.
Why would anyone even think that?
Well see ambulance is faster than walking so you advance in the line faster. Makes sense
I mean I’ve gone to countless common cold and knee-pain gigs during my time as a responder. It’s insane from what people call help for and what they think ambulances do. One guy attacked us when we couldn’t cure his flu on the spot
17 years ago on a Saturday night, just before bedtime, my 4yo son was being a dufus and managed to break his collarbone. Before we knew it was broken (but knew something was obviously wrong) I took him to the emergency room. We were stuck waiting about 6 hours to be seen. The nurse that triaged us was extremely apologetic and literally stated “I’m so sorry you’ve had to wait so long, we’re stuck having to see the drunken scraped knees first just because they came in an ambulance.”
I’m assuming that if my son were bleeding out he would be seen faster, but I’ve assumed that in non-life threatening situations that ambulances receive priority.
Interesting, which country was that?
United States, medium sized hospital in the Chicago suburbs.
Where was this
Illinois, one of the Chicago suburbs.
Wishful thinking? Entitlement? Main character syndrome? Some kind of nonsense.
Because I’ve literally been told that by hospital staff (in Germany). This may vary by country.
Interesting, now I wonder if our ambulances even carry people for bullshit reasons, if they don’t, it’d make sense that those are always actual emergencies.