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As someone who suffered a crushed finger accident as a teenager and did not take an ambulance to the ER, I really really wish that I had. Ambulance = immediate
by wanderr 8y ago
As someone who suffered a crushed finger accident as a teenager and did not take an ambulance to the ER, I really really wish that I had. Ambulance = immediate admittance, rather than waiting for 8 hours only to be told that you need to see the specialist who has gone home for the day.
- kryogen1c 8y ago> Ambulance = immediate admittance This is not true. Patients arriving in ambulances are triaged and helped according to need, just like anyone else.
- justin66 8y ago> Patients arriving in ambulances are triaged and helped according to need, just like anyone else. This is something rather commonly stated and it's observably not true. I wonder what that's about, but I suspect it's a case of the way things are supposed to work (triage in the emergency room is supposed to not suck, but it's usually so bad that it is the weakest link in a patient's emergency care, even at a good hospital) and the way things actually work (riding in on the ambulance gets you in front of a doctor faster very close to 100% of the time).
- wanderr 8y agoThat's not what I was told by a doctor working at the hospital.