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We Already Know a Way to Save a Bunch of Lives
- skavi 1y agoThe headline isn’t referenced until the last question: > In your piece, you tell the story of a clinical trial in which they put blood on ambulances and got it to people before the hospital, and it showed a huge improvement in survival. Then, as soon as the clinical trial was over, they had to take it out because there was no way to get it paid for. > The surgeons who spoke to me about this called it criminal. And I think they’re right. It’s really wrong that we know how to save lives already and we aren’t doing it because it’s not reimbursable.