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Originally Posted by Sliver
I don't even know where this 114 number comes from. I must have missed the genesis of this conversation hah.
Yeah, I'm all in for hiring more nurses, though. I hope they increase the corporate tax rate to pay for it because I thought it was absolutely brain dead of them to lower it.
But I'm saying you don't even need to hire one nurse with my plan. Just triage ambulance patients as though they're walk-ins. If they need the EMS people to stay with them, then perfect. If they're sitting on a stretcher tying up an ambulance and two paramedics for an anxiety attack that has already passed, then boot them into the waiting room with everyone else so EMS can get back on the streets.
Do we all agree here, though? Feels like maybe we do.
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Don't some EMS visits to a home end with just treatment at the home and not transported to the ER? So would it make sense to bring a patient to the ER by ambulance and then boot them to the waiting room? They would have been better off just staying home then and that would be bad judgement by the paramedic.
Sure if a person have gotten themselves to the ER, they should wait because other than screening into triage, we know nothing about them. But why would a person already vetted by a paramedic and deemed important enough to be transported to the ER have to go back to the waiting room?