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I agree with the general point, but real medical emergencies aren't Grey's Anatomy or ER with people screaming for this or that medication and running down the

by joshgel 13y ago

I agree with the general point, but real medical emergencies aren't Grey's Anatomy or ER with people screaming for this or that medication and running down the halls. You have 4.5 hours to treat someone for a stroke and 6 hours for an MI. Not that you don't have to go quickly, but you also don't have to rush unnecessarily.

mikeash 13y ago
There clearly are some medical emergencies that need responses that fast, otherwise I wouldn't see so many ambulances flying by with lights and sirens. Now, maybe there aren't enough of those in the problem category to make a difference in costs. However, even 4-6 hours seems like a pretty short amount of time given that you're going to be trying to identify someone as on a blacklist when they most likely will be trying not to be identified, and measures like requiring ID before treatment will exclude a lot of people not on the blacklist.
Cass 13y ago
You have 4.5 hours to treat someone for a stroke if they teleport to the hospital the second they notice the first symptom. In real life, you often have an hour or four where the patients wait for their weird symptoms to go away again because they don't want to overreact and bother some busy doctor who should be taking care of Serious Emergencies, and then another half hour to get them to the ER, and then you're lucky if they're still in the treatment window at all by the time a doctor sees them. There's not a lot of running down halls in screaming in real ERs, but there's also no time to, for example, send someone to go home and get the ID the patient forgot in their panic and hurry, to prove they're not blacklisted "no medical treatment" somewhere.
moioci 13y ago
joshgel, I don't know where you live, but in my country, hospitals are publicly rated on their performance in treating MIs with angioplasty within 90 minutes of patient arrival, insured or not.

by joshgel 13y ago

mikeash 13y ago

There clearly are some medical emergencies that need responses that fast, otherwise I wouldn't see so many ambulances flying by with lights and sirens. Now, maybe there aren't enough of those in the problem category to make a difference in costs. However, even 4-6 hours seems like a pretty short amount of time given that you're going to be trying to identify someone as on a blacklist when they most likely will be trying not to be identified, and measures like requiring ID before treatment will exclude a lot of people not on the blacklist.

Cass 13y ago

You have 4.5 hours to treat someone for a stroke if they teleport to the hospital the second they notice the first symptom. In real life, you often have an hour or four where the patients wait for their weird symptoms to go away again because they don't want to overreact and bother some busy doctor who should be taking care of Serious Emergencies, and then another half hour to get them to the ER, and then you're lucky if they're still in the treatment window at all by the time a doctor sees them. There's not a lot of running down halls in screaming in real ERs, but there's also no time to, for example, send someone to go home and get the ID the patient forgot in their panic and hurry, to prove they're not blacklisted "no medical treatment" somewhere.

moioci 13y ago

joshgel, I don't know where you live, but in my country, hospitals are publicly rated on their performance in treating MIs with angioplasty within 90 minutes of patient arrival, insured or not.