DrParasite
The fire extinguisher is not just for show
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As someone who is a proponent of L&S to all EMS calls where there is an illness or injury, unless there is a reliable on duty person on scene.....What's the thought process, if there is one, behind an outdated and dangerous practice like that?
Are you judged on your response times? I know our elected officials want a rapid response when 911 is called. even if it just saves a 30 seconds to a minute, that helps. if no one cares about your response times, than by all means, slow ride, just go with traffic at a normal pace. Also, when it takes yoru ambulance extra time to get to the kid who was struck by a car, and the mayor uses that incident as justification to get another company to take over the 911 contract, then what will you think?
The other thing is as I have said before, garbage in, garbage out. Just because the caller says the call is minor, doesn't mean the patient's isn't sick and dying. Until a medically trained person arrives and assesses the patient, they could be dying, just the idiot caller says the person's toe hurts.
Yes, most calls don't even need an ambulance, a taxi ride to their PMD would probably suit 80% of the calls just as easily, but until you get a trained medical professional to that scene, you won't know for sure.