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To have a heart attack, or any other emergency health condition in a high floor is surely a death sentence. By the time help arrives and people manage to hush y
by Qem 4y ago
To have a heart attack, or any other emergency health condition in a high floor is surely a death sentence. By the time help arrives and people manage to hush you through the elevators/stairs, you're gone.
- rsynnott 4y agoI mean, less so than living outside a city, surely? Most of the time is going to be for the paramedics to get to the building in any case.
- slackfan 4y agoWell, 7 minute absolute best case ambulance response time to the scene, another 7-10 minutes to do the elevator ride, potentially twice if the patient is immobile, then another 10-30 minutes to get to the hospital. Vs in a small town ambulance response time is about the same, and travel to the local hospital is also about the same. But there are no elevator rides. Vs living in the actual boonies (connecticut is a tiny state that is primarily suburbia), where you just assume ambulances dont exist, you keep and know how to use a proper medkit, and you know where the nearest and farthest ERs are, and most importantly - you do not live alone.
- rsynnott 4y ago> another 7-10 minutes to do the elevator ride Really?! This sounds _very_ high. > then another 10-30 minutes to get to the hospital. This also sounds pretty high. Looks like there's a general hospital literally 500m away in this case. > in a small town ambulance response time is about the same, and travel to the local hospital is also about the same It's going to depend on the small town, but I would assume that most small towns are _not_ within 30 mins of a general hospital. Of course, depending on what's wrong with you, something less than a general hospital might work, but then again it might not.
- slackfan 4y agoNow try driving the 500m to your local hospital.
- CPLX 4y agoWhat a strange comment. Somehow being about half a mile from the most sophisticated collection of medical facilities on the planet, plus an unusually long elevator ride, is more of a death sentence then like being on a farm in Connecticut or something?
- slackfan 4y agoTravel times are what they are, and instant teleportation has not been invented yet
- Qem 4y agohttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10903120590891679?journalCode=ipec20 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1090312059089167...
- xboxnolifes 4y agoThis is comparing different floors in the same building, not highrise vs small town. And it's showing a difference of less than 2 minutes.