TransportJockey
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I'm starting to think that all Lvl 4 ER admins go to a class called "abusing EMS and panicking". My hospital does that crap all the time (and the Lvl 4 is the only one we have in the county)Our Level IV hospital needs to just go away. It's a six bed ER 40 minutes from the city. It serves a wealthy exurb, a casino town, and a large rural/frontier area. Yet they are so jaded I want to take my patients with me when I leave. Bring a patient in with anxiety and a legit dental infection: "she's just seeking and out of her drugs." Uh no, I picked her up from work and she has plenty of pain medicine left but is so freaked out by the pain that she is having involuntary contractures. The other crew brings in an uninjured teenager who was forced over the phone to be transported by mom after he drove his car off the road into a field at a decent speed. The ER called a trauma alert based on the speed and demanded the patient be spinalled in the room. This after the patient walked into the hospital...
We do all their transfers too. Oh you have elevated d-dimer with no other clinical findings? Better get an ALS ambulance here ASAP, and can they come the 2.6 miles from the station lights and sirens!?!?
HALP.