As a retired paramedic I have to agree with even if we can’t save the patient we can give kindness to those left behind. That was the greatest honor o f my career, giving comfort to someone on the worst day of their lives.
As a retired flight nurse in the USA there are so many calls that will be with me into eternity. Many of these aren’t because of how gruesome the case was, or how unusual, etc., but because of the people. The parents of a child that who had injuries too severe to support life - I did any and everything to support and protect those parents. Another child that I had run up to me in a Walmart store because I had “saved his life.” I remembered him not for what had made him unwell, but for how grateful he had been. I always treated patients like family , with love and kindness. Love and kindness do more for pain than any drug. You have to be “called “ to this kind of work. If you aren’t, you won’t survive this field of work. It takes a toll on you physically, mentally, and emotionally - and yet there is nothing else I could ever do. I look back on my career with joy. You are the richest person in the world when you are fulfilled.
A random internet stranger wants to thank you for being a miracle worker. Even if you didn't save everyone, the kindness in your heart clearly shines through, and sometimes, that's exactly what a family needs. It sounds like you definitely found your calling in life and did extremely well at it. As someone who had frequent visits to our house until my father passed away, I consider all medics to be miracle workers, even if you're "just doing your job." Thanks for being an incredible human being.
Now that I’m older I couldn’t do these jobs anymore. I was a dispatcher, an EMT and a Police Sgt and I’ve seen so much I just couldn’t anymore. It takes so much of you. I commend all those in the field. When I began my journey I had a Sgt say to me “remember your life as it is right now. The best you can hope for at the end of the journey is to have everything you have right now”. He was so right and I don’t even remember his name but it stuck with me.
Wow and I thought we have it harder in the united states of America I'm not a firefighter or paramedic or police officer I'm just a retired truck driver live life being retired but watch these videos that shows a lot of amazing people who are out there serving and helping people who are in danger life and death thank you for your service
Well, one of those good things about emergency services in the United States is that I most large cities the “ambulance” is provided by the fire department. Thus when the paramedics are dispatched, a fire truck is dispatched too to provide manpower for cases such as the older man unable to walk. Really needed them when my mother was suffering from a urinary tract infection that went septic. Unfortunately it was too late and we lost her.
Seems the NHS needs to start creating Urgent Care Clinics at various locations in areas that require a lot of ambulances. That way the patients could either take themselves there, or the ambulance crews could deliver the less critical cases there for treatment. Also, they could have a crew base at these Urgent Care Clinics that could deploy to pick up the people who have fallen... 🎉😊
It's a nasty addiction!my husband had emphysyma after smoking 4 packs a day for over 30 years,he managed to kick them a couple of years before he passed of a heart attack,like the gentleman in the video,we had eaten breakfast together,then I went to sort the bedrooms out,I found him unresponsive on the settee,the ambulance crew tried for over 40 mins to revive him,but he was gone.Both my sons smoke today,even though they saw what their father went through first hand and there is a family history of lung disease in the family.I know if you really want to,you can cut them out,I did, my hubby did,albeit a bit late,but obviously my sons are hiding behind their fingers(a saying we have here in Greece.)because they don't have any health problems yet.as I said,it's a nasty addiction which slowly steals your ability to breathe.
I couldn't believe that either. I smoked on and off for nearly 20 years, it was harder to quit than drinking for me. I went cold turkey and daily mantras. But the real desire to wan to smoke took years to go away when hanging out with smokers or after a few drinks. After a few years I have no desired but I make a lot of other healthier choices too that helps. My husband smokes cigars, and I can't get him to quit.
I know the UK has "111", too, but they, and we here in the US, need a major ad campaign to keep people from calling the EMERGENCY number when someone is not actively bleeding or dying. And here (US) needs to have a second 3 digit number for us to call for "non-emergencies but I need help" calls. I was in a fender bender the other day and needed a cop for a report, but it wasn't an emergency. Since I was out of town in a rural area I didn't know WHOM to call, so I kind of had to call 911. Felt terrible about it. Maybe a "444" "For help" would be an idea.
non emergency is just their regular number. If you have a smart phone you look it up from you map app. I guess people aren't used to looking up regular old numbers anymore, remember we use to cal 411?
The situation has gotten worse since Brexit, as I believe this was before Brexit. The NHS funding has 😢funnelled into private care because of the current government.
It seems to me that they need to hire more parametric and ambulances as well as having some local area parametric in the townships who can be on call and respond to the patients in their homes prior to the ambulances arrival. Especially for the people who have fallen and can't get up... 😢
@@613miami Ask that royal family to sell some of their family jewels and a few hunting lodges, oh and maybe have a few less climate change parties. Donate the money for more ambulances!
Paul passed away right in front of his family from emphysema ,which is caused by smoking, yet there they are still smoking. Smoking kills. Thankful I live in the USA where very few ppl smoke .
There are major differences with what the paramedics do in the UK and the US. In the US, the paras job is to get you to a hospital and to stabilize you if they can. In the UK, their job is to fix what they can before they go to hospital. Which is why they have less ambulances, and the calls take much more time than they do in the US.
@kathyroux7386 no one said anythinbout having tea... There were Americans commenting about the amount of ambulances and how long the calls were taking, I wanted to briefly explain what the difference is between us and UK paramedics
the woman talking about how much she loves her ex husband after all these years because he gave her her daughter made me cry. speaks volumes on how some people still truly feel even after divorce.
I know here were I live we have first responders/firefighters who come out on calls that are for minor stuff like elderly falls that just possibly need picked up or minor scraps that access them and if it turns out they are more than just a minor fall and need an ambulance they call for one to keep the ambulances available for emergencies.... just wondering why they don't have their firefighters or fire brigade do that?
15! 15 ambulances it doesn't sound like London is giving the proper services needed for their citizens. I bet the royal family can spare a little bit more money for their loyal citizens. Maybe sale a jewel or two?
Imagine being in the US and health insurance doesn’t cover ambulance service because for profit healthcare allows them to charge thousands and thousands of dollars leaving people beholden to them. They even report you to the credit agencies and ruin your credit. People file bankruptcy over medical bills here. Insanity. Because every medical service negotiates with the insurance companies they pay outrageous amounts for things that cost dollars. I didn’t have insurance and paid $4 for a prescription. On insurance I pay a $60 copay for the same medication. That tells you all you need to know.
Have you ever called for an ambulance only to be told there are no ambulances available? Can you imagine calling 911 because your acrylic nail has broken and is stabbing you?
@@xo2quilt That happens in the US as well. It's well over 12% in the US, partly because, unlike most other developed agencies, the service is fragmented into over 20,000 agencies. Plus, in the US, it's often the _fire service_ that's sent out to deal with medical emergencies! And in some countries, the crank call rate is 80%+.
@@CatholicSatan Wow, guess I have been blessed to live in the right places. Crank calls should be traced and those people made to pay for the costs associated with their crank calls!
@@CatholicSatan in Hong Kong fire engines are equipped to deal with medical emergencies to a point. I've called 999 for people when 999 was flooded, the automated system told me to call a special fire services medical emergency line.
@@CatholicSatan I there are 80% crank calls, they need to make it a crime if it isn’t already. Then enforce it with zero tolerance. The US has specific crime statutes for misuse of the 911 system. They vary in detail from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. The US is a patchwork of law because each state makes their own laws and each state has a state law enforcement agency. Then each county has a sheriff who is elected. Each municipality has its own police force. That includes municipalities that are surrounded by another municipality. It would be confusing for people from other countries. I think the UK has individual police agencies for municipalities but only one national police (correct me if I am wrong, but that is how I understand it. I live outside a large city in an unincorporated area of the county. We have our own fire service which includes ambulances and the county has a library system. Our healthcare system is a nightmare as the whole world knows. Even so, it is MUCH better after Obama got some legislation passed. Too bad we can’t take lessons from each other to develop the most efficient and cost effective protocols possible for each public service without burying people in taxes.
I do not know why you need 5 paramedics to take care of an overdose, even a basic life support unit with narcan can manage that, it is a waste of time and resources. Most cases during this episode could be managed by one crew of two medics specially with such high call volume.
I think it’s a very bad approach to tell people that an ambulance is not required. I think it would be far better to tell people that they are backed up up. Just tell them the truth. Tell them that they have been swamped with life-threatening calls and they’ve simply run out of ambulances but they’re working as hard as they can to clear these calls. As an American living under the 911 system, I know things can get backed up and have kilter at times. But it’s better to tell people the truth then tell them their situation does not require an ambulance.
I carry Narcan in my purse. Everyone can here in the states. No I’m not a drug addict, drug addicts could have it on them too but they don’t want it…even if they die from the OD they don’t want to give up the high.
I wonder how many people die waiting for an ambulance? Here in America, it's only if you live in a remote area or in the aftermath of a serious disaster that you'd have to wait an hour or more for an ambulance.
How on earth do you know? According to research, in the US, _ "While there is an unavoidable delay between a 911 call and EMS arrival, to our knowledge, no current published data exist to quantify these time frames."_ Despite that, the research got hold of figures - which they decided to ignore - of, "encounters with arrival times 120 minutes or longer or transport times 180 minutes or longer". See the National Library of Medicine, "Emergency Medical Services Response Times in Rural, Suburban, and Urban Areas".
Probably has more to do with the fact that in the USA you only call for a ambulance when it’s really a emergency since we have to pay so much money for the ride. So most people get there selfs to the hospital if it’s at all possible.
Family history plays a big part. My husband just had a five way bypass. Never smoked, never used drugs rarely even over the counter,exercised religiously, ate healthy, good weight.
A lot of the people in America that think we should have free health insurance they don’t see a lot of these consequences where you can’t get medical care and timely manner. They said they had 15 ambulances to cover 8 1/2 million people that’s insane I mean I can’t even believe that whoever put that program together, needs to have their head examined.
Actually, London has a population of 9,176,530; this must've been prior to 2020. My world almanac says the higher number. This is the drawback of socialized medicine -- care is rationed, so not so many doctors, nurses, ambulances, paramedics, etc..
@@michelefritchie6198 Health care in the US is rationed up the wazoo. Have you never heard of insurance companies or doctors or hospitals refusing care because the patient was "not in network"? Or because you have a pre-existing condition? US health insurance companies are rightly known as "death panels". Over 10% of the population has no health insurance and medical outcomes in the US are _way_ below other developed countries. Of the top ten countries, 8 are in Europe (including the UK) plus Canada and Australia, the US ranks as 23rd.
@@CatholicSatan Where I live, we have a problem with patient dumping. It's usually poor, indigent, and elderly patients who get dumped, out on the street, after being treated, with no way to contact someone to care for them or take them home. I was in a shelter, and one night a cab dumped a 90 year old lady, who had nothing but the hospital gown on her at the shelter. Our shelter director, after getting the lady's story, went to the cab driver and told him to take this lady back to the hospital or she was calling the cops on him. The cabbie obeyed. Health care rationing is more defined as limiting the number of procedures that doctors and hospitals are allowed to perform. In Canada, I've heard of people having to wait five years for certain lifesaving procedures, or having dental care. But I agree, insurance companies were once the friend of the less wealthy, now they're money-grubbing for-profit companies. On the flip side, hospitals can go broke treating too many people without insurance.
This is going to sound heartless. But if there it's a wait for help for with immanent threat to life, over doses should not get priority over accidental injuries or sudden attacks in illness with life threatening symptoms both must come first. So often they don't even want the treatment while someone else wants to live.
We EMTs don't presume to try and play God and decide who is more WORTH saving. That's a slippery slope. Thinking like that leads to: a person of this age is less of a priority, a person who is drunk is less of a priority, a person who caused the traffic accident is less of a priority, a person of this ethnic group is less of a priority, a person of that religion is less of a priority, a person suffering from mental illness is less of a priority. Everyone is someone's child, parent, partner, family, or friend. No one is worthless. I am not anyone's judge.
@@kathyroux7386I think neither of you understand what’s either is saying. The op is saying something about prioritizing worse injuries over less but phrased poorly and you kinda seem like you’re saying that that doesn’t exist?
As a retired paramedic I have to agree with even if we can’t save the patient we can give kindness to those left behind. That was the greatest honor o f my career, giving comfort to someone on the worst day of their lives.
Thank you for what you did. I truly appreciate you and others that work in this very stressful field. I can't even imagine.....bless you all.
Thank you . God bless you and your family for sharing you with so many people on this earth ❤🙏🏻
As a retired flight nurse in the USA there are so many calls that will be with me into eternity. Many of these aren’t because of how gruesome the case was, or how unusual, etc., but because of the people. The parents of a child that who had injuries too severe to support life - I did any and everything to support and protect those parents. Another child that I had run up to me in a Walmart store because I had “saved his life.” I remembered him not for what had made him unwell, but for how grateful he had been. I always treated patients like family , with love and kindness. Love and kindness do more for pain than any drug. You have to be “called “ to this kind of work. If you aren’t, you won’t survive this field of work. It takes a toll on you physically, mentally, and emotionally - and yet there is nothing else I could ever do. I look back on my career with joy. You are the richest person in the world when you are fulfilled.
A random internet stranger wants to thank you for being a miracle worker. Even if you didn't save everyone, the kindness in your heart clearly shines through, and sometimes, that's exactly what a family needs. It sounds like you definitely found your calling in life and did extremely well at it. As someone who had frequent visits to our house until my father passed away, I consider all medics to be miracle workers, even if you're "just doing your job." Thanks for being an incredible human being.
Thank you for savings lives. God Bless you always and your family 🙏. Happy Holidays
Thank you for your service, & loving compassion.
Your assessment of criteria to serve in this field is accurate. ❤
All of these folks have a very stressful job. We owe them our respect and thanks.
Now that I’m older I couldn’t do these jobs anymore. I was a dispatcher, an EMT and a Police Sgt and I’ve seen so much I just couldn’t anymore. It takes so much of you. I commend all those in the field. When I began my journey I had a Sgt say to me “remember your life as it is right now. The best you can hope for at the end of the journey is to have everything you have right now”. He was so right and I don’t even remember his name but it stuck with me.
Dispatcher, EMT (paramedic) AND police sergeant? I smell so much bs. You’re have better things to do than commenting on UA-cam.
Wow and I thought we have it harder in the united states of America I'm not a firefighter or paramedic or police officer I'm just a retired truck driver live life being retired but watch these videos that shows a lot of amazing people who are out there serving and helping people who are in danger life and death thank you for your service
All respect to these wonderful people saving lives.....
Well, one of those good things about emergency services in the United States is that I most large cities the “ambulance” is provided by the fire department. Thus when the paramedics are dispatched, a fire truck is dispatched too to provide manpower for cases such as the older man unable to walk. Really needed them when my mother was suffering from a urinary tract infection that went septic. Unfortunately it was too late and we lost her.
I’m sorry for your loss sir. I’m glad she’s at peace. You will get through this.
😢
In US tho…. It all costs a lot….. often we have to say “no” to ambulance service… 😮
They need more ambulances everywhere
yeah but the government cuts the budget all the time...
And, We need less people with runny noses calling the EMERGENCY number!
No. We actually need people that call the Ambulance only then, when nothing else is possible anymore
God bless all of you❤. I am in awe.
I love this show
Such kindness 😍
It's heart braking to hear that the ambulance are unable to come withing an hour
Heart breaking
breaking
Braking is what you press down to stop a vehicle.
Breaking has a whole other definition.
I don't know about the industry, but is that why there are independent or contract ambulances in some areas to back up the county?
And that's why we don't want socialized medical care in the US
Government need to sp3nd some money on ambulances and staff
Seems the NHS needs to start creating Urgent Care Clinics at various locations in areas that require a lot of ambulances. That way the patients could either take themselves there, or the ambulance crews could deliver the less critical cases there for treatment. Also, they could have a crew base at these Urgent Care Clinics that could deploy to pick up the people who have fallen... 🎉😊
God bless ambulance and emergency workers worldwide. Thank you for being there when needed. ❤
The gentleman who had emphasyma and could nit be saved: then his relative lit up a cigarette? I guess no lesson learned here. 😢
It's a nasty addiction!my husband had emphysyma after smoking 4 packs a day for over 30 years,he managed to kick them a couple of years before he passed of a heart attack,like the gentleman in the video,we had eaten breakfast together,then I went to sort the bedrooms out,I found him unresponsive on the settee,the ambulance crew tried for over 40 mins to revive him,but he was gone.Both my sons smoke today,even though they saw what their father went through first hand and there is a family history of lung disease in the family.I know if you really want to,you can cut them out,I did, my hubby did,albeit a bit late,but obviously my sons are hiding behind their fingers(a saying we have here in Greece.)because they don't have any health problems yet.as I said,it's a nasty addiction which slowly steals your ability to breathe.
I couldn't believe that either. I smoked on and off for nearly 20 years, it was harder to quit than drinking for me. I went cold turkey and daily mantras. But the real desire to wan to smoke took years to go away when hanging out with smokers or after a few drinks. After a few years I have no desired but I make a lot of other healthier choices too that helps. My husband smokes cigars, and I can't get him to quit.
I don't smoke at all I'm good
Please don’t judge someone ! Stop smoking is hard and look what they just went though !!
Judging on having too much nicotinic receptors in the brain due to smoking, there was no point if hitting a cig.
I know the UK has "111", too, but they, and we here in the US, need a major ad campaign to keep people from calling the EMERGENCY number when someone is not actively bleeding or dying. And here (US) needs to have a second 3 digit number for us to call for "non-emergencies but I need help" calls. I was in a fender bender the other day and needed a cop for a report, but it wasn't an emergency. Since I was out of town in a rural area I didn't know WHOM to call, so I kind of had to call 911. Felt terrible about it. Maybe a "444" "For help" would be an idea.
non emergency is just their regular number. If you have a smart phone you look it up from you map app. I guess people aren't used to looking up regular old numbers anymore, remember we use to cal 411?
Youd think they would have mutiple places of the calling centers...
What year was this filmed? What year did they correct the lack of trained emergency personnel & the lack of proper transport?
The situation has gotten worse since Brexit, as I believe this was before Brexit. The NHS funding has 😢funnelled into private care because of the current government.
What kind of care home has stabbings? Ive never heard of this
A care home that has people with dementia...they can be quite strong, unpredictable and violent.
It seems to me that they need to hire more parametric and ambulances as well as having some local area parametric in the townships who can be on call and respond to the patients in their homes prior to the ambulances arrival. Especially for the people who have fallen and can't get up... 😢
They don’t have the money!!
@@613miami Ask that royal family to sell some of their family jewels and a few hunting lodges, oh and maybe have a few less climate change parties. Donate the money for more ambulances!
I'm surprised as well
@@debbiew.7716 🤣😂 you are so right.
These rich people buy little bitty stuff that is so expensive. 💂📿💍
ParaMEDIC!
Paul passed away right in front of his family from emphysema ,which is caused by smoking, yet there they are still smoking. Smoking kills. Thankful I live in the USA where very few ppl smoke .
you've got the biggest opioid crisis ever, so...
There are major differences with what the paramedics do in the UK and the US. In the US, the paras job is to get you to a hospital and to stabilize you if they can. In the UK, their job is to fix what they can before they go to hospital. Which is why they have less ambulances, and the calls take much more time than they do in the US.
We're fighting for more skills, but we also make the same as people that work fast food and grocery stores.
Yeah! I'm a former EMT from near Philadelphia. We never lingered at a patient's house to make tea...
@kathyroux7386 no one said anythinbout having tea... There were Americans commenting about the amount of ambulances and how long the calls were taking, I wanted to briefly explain what the difference is between us and UK paramedics
Kind of the difference between "scoop and run" and "stay and play", at least thats how its called in emergency medicine
Why did the shooting appear to get priority over the stabbing in the care sent?
Good re-edit.
Did they not have the air ambulance yet? This has to be before they set it up
Yes, it existed then. As one of the paramedics referred to HEMS, the Helicopter Emergency Medical Service.
You have 3 crews for 1 patient? WTH!!
It's for man power
the woman talking about how much she loves her ex husband after all these years because he gave her her daughter made me cry. speaks volumes on how some people still truly feel even after divorce.
My Grandma cried for my Grandpa after probably 30 years of divorce and bad mouthly him. They must of had good times once.
The amount of stabbings in the UK is through the roof.
i was wondering if someone would know the song that starts at 55:07, i thought it sounds nice and would like to know the name :)
I’m getting ready by Michael kiwanuka
The royal family has so much money they need more amblances
🙏🏻
How old is this program, we don't do breaths during CPR anymore except for drowning ?
They're on series 11 now, so at least 11 years old
It is season 1 episode 1 so it is not recent. I watched a special about NHA the other day and I am thinking 2015
2016.
I know here were I live we have first responders/firefighters who come out on calls that are for minor stuff like elderly falls that just possibly need picked up or minor scraps that access them and if it turns out they are more than just a minor fall and need an ambulance they call for one to keep the ambulances available for emergencies.... just wondering why they don't have their firefighters or fire brigade do that?
15! 15 ambulances it doesn't sound like London is giving the proper services needed for their citizens. I bet the royal family can spare a little bit more money for their loyal citizens. Maybe sale a jewel or two?
Many comments comparing US and UK 😂
Imagine being in the US and health insurance doesn’t cover ambulance service because for profit healthcare allows them to charge thousands and thousands of dollars leaving people beholden to them. They even report you to the credit agencies and ruin your credit. People file bankruptcy over medical bills here. Insanity.
Because every medical service negotiates with the insurance companies they pay outrageous amounts for things that cost dollars.
I didn’t have insurance and paid $4 for a prescription. On insurance I pay a $60 copay for the same medication. That tells you all you need to know.
Have you ever called for an ambulance only to be told there are no ambulances available? Can you imagine calling 911 because your acrylic nail has broken and is stabbing you?
@@xo2quilt That happens in the US as well. It's well over 12% in the US, partly because, unlike most other developed agencies, the service is fragmented into over 20,000 agencies. Plus, in the US, it's often the _fire service_ that's sent out to deal with medical emergencies! And in some countries, the crank call rate is 80%+.
@@CatholicSatan Wow, guess I have been blessed to live in the right places. Crank calls should be traced and those people made to pay for the costs associated with their crank calls!
@@CatholicSatan in Hong Kong fire engines are equipped to deal with medical emergencies to a point. I've called 999 for people when 999 was flooded, the automated system told me to call a special fire services medical emergency line.
@@CatholicSatan I there are 80% crank calls, they need to make it a crime if it isn’t already. Then enforce it with zero tolerance. The US has specific crime statutes for misuse of the 911 system. They vary in detail from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.
The US is a patchwork of law because each state makes their own laws and each state has a state law enforcement agency. Then each county has a sheriff who is elected. Each municipality has its own police force. That includes municipalities that are surrounded by another municipality. It would be confusing for people from other countries. I think the UK has individual police agencies for municipalities but only one national police (correct me if I am wrong, but that is how I understand it.
I live outside a large city in an unincorporated area of the county. We have our own fire service which includes ambulances and the county has a library system. Our healthcare system is a nightmare as the whole world knows. Even so, it is MUCH better after Obama got some legislation passed.
Too bad we can’t take lessons from each other to develop the most efficient and cost effective protocols possible for each public service without burying people in taxes.
I do not know why you need 5 paramedics to take care of an overdose, even a basic life support unit with narcan can manage that, it is a waste of time and resources. Most cases during this episode could be managed by one crew of two medics specially with such high call volume.
"I'm no gang member" And seconds later telling the ambulance worker that he was once stabbed. 🤨 Right...
How do you know that he was a gang member?
That might have been for taking the last piece of chicken on a someones bad day.
What. 5 miles from the hospital and they waited 36 minutes for the specialist?!
I think it’s a very bad approach to tell people that an ambulance is not required. I think it would be far better to tell people that they are backed up up. Just tell them the truth. Tell them that they have been swamped with life-threatening calls and they’ve simply run out of ambulances but they’re working as hard as they can to clear these calls. As an American living under the 911 system, I know things can get backed up and have kilter at times. But it’s better to tell people the truth then tell them their situation does not require an ambulance.
3 ambulances at an overdose come on.
Wonder if they have narcan for sale on store shelves like we do here in the US?
While the dementia patient waits..
@@michelefritchie6198I believe you need a script for narcan
I carry Narcan in my purse. Everyone can here in the states. No I’m not a drug addict, drug addicts could have it on them too but they don’t want it…even if they die from the OD they don’t want to give up the high.
Pandamic hits there set.
dam the guy has been on the floor for 50 minutes
I wonder how many people die waiting for an ambulance? Here in America, it's only if you live in a remote area or in the aftermath of a serious disaster that you'd have to wait an hour or more for an ambulance.
😂😂😂Love from South Africa 🇿🇦 ❤. How's multicultural society working out for you? Check our murder stats. And farm murders...
How on earth do you know? According to research, in the US, _ "While there is an unavoidable delay between a 911 call and EMS arrival, to our knowledge, no current published data exist to quantify these time frames."_ Despite that, the research got hold of figures - which they decided to ignore - of, "encounters with arrival times 120 minutes or longer or transport times 180 minutes or longer". See the National Library of Medicine, "Emergency Medical Services Response Times in Rural, Suburban, and Urban Areas".
Probably has more to do with the fact that in the USA you only call for a ambulance when it’s really a emergency since we have to pay so much money for the ride. So most people get there selfs to the hospital if it’s at all possible.
Hey just because on this episode looks horrible doesnt mean it happen daily..
Yeah, no, we're out of ambulances and providers everywhere in the U.S. it just depends on the day if you're going to get one or not
So peaceful 😂
Of the 26 heart attacks I wonder what percent are from drug addiction and obesity. That's an important distinction.
Family history plays a big part. My husband just had a five way bypass. Never smoked, never used drugs rarely even over the counter,exercised religiously, ate healthy, good weight.
A lot of the people in America that think we should have free health insurance they don’t see a lot of these consequences where you can’t get medical care and timely manner. They said they had 15 ambulances to cover 8 1/2 million people that’s insane I mean I can’t even believe that whoever put that program together, needs to have their head examined.
An ambulance for your acrylic nail. Go to your nail salon or walk in somewhere. Geez Louise.
"I ain’t no gang member" proceeds to mention how he was once stabbed and now was shot 🧐🧐🧐
Doesn’t make you involved in a gang. People get shot and stabbed regardless.
3 crews with an overdose. Unacceptable. Help the people who really need it first. The choice to abuse drugs is a choice. Not a necessity
in a city with streets designed by what looks like a child with a crayon had drawn on the back of a kid's menu, this must be incredibly tough.
486 ambulances for 8 and a half million people? Well i guess there are good things about life in America.
Actually, London has a population of 9,176,530; this must've been prior to 2020. My world almanac says the higher number. This is the drawback of socialized medicine -- care is rationed, so not so many doctors, nurses, ambulances, paramedics, etc..
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@@michelefritchie6198 Health care in the US is rationed up the wazoo. Have you never heard of insurance companies or doctors or hospitals refusing care because the patient was "not in network"? Or because you have a pre-existing condition? US health insurance companies are rightly known as "death panels". Over 10% of the population has no health insurance and medical outcomes in the US are _way_ below other developed countries. Of the top ten countries, 8 are in Europe (including the UK) plus Canada and Australia, the US ranks as 23rd.
@@CatholicSatan Where I live, we have a problem with patient dumping. It's usually poor, indigent, and elderly patients who get dumped, out on the street, after being treated, with no way to contact someone to care for them or take them home. I was in a shelter, and one night a cab dumped a 90 year old lady, who had nothing but the hospital gown on her at the shelter. Our shelter director, after getting the lady's story, went to the cab driver and told him to take this lady back to the hospital or she was calling the cops on him. The cabbie obeyed.
Health care rationing is more defined as limiting the number of procedures that doctors and hospitals are allowed to perform. In Canada, I've heard of people having to wait five years for certain lifesaving procedures, or having dental care.
But I agree, insurance companies were once the friend of the less wealthy, now they're money-grubbing for-profit companies. On the flip side, hospitals can go broke treating too many people without insurance.
Try living somewhere else for a year and you will know.
If you know you have no where near enough ambulances, um…….buy more ambulances! Dang! Guess America is at least Better in this way.
They have to have crews and money to run them
They don’t have the funds!!
You think that money will magically appear ?
36 minutes to get to the patient? Maybe should have just been taken to hospital
This is going to sound heartless. But if there it's a wait for help for with immanent threat to life, over doses should not get priority over accidental injuries or sudden attacks in illness with life threatening symptoms both must come first. So often they don't even want the treatment while someone else wants to live.
If hes already cold to the touch their dead
Oh dear, i only hope the Queen is alright 😮 😅
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A heroin overdose is NOT a situation that should be prioritised
We EMTs don't presume to try and play God and decide who is more WORTH saving. That's a slippery slope. Thinking like that leads to: a person of this age is less of a priority, a person who is drunk is less of a priority, a person who caused the traffic accident is less of a priority, a person of this ethnic group is less of a priority, a person of that religion is less of a priority, a person suffering from mental illness is less of a priority. Everyone is someone's child, parent, partner, family, or friend. No one is worthless.
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@@kathyroux7386I think neither of you understand what’s either is saying. The op is saying something about prioritizing worse injuries over less but phrased poorly and you kinda seem like you’re saying that that doesn’t exist?
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