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Originally Posted by StarbuckSammy
EMS drivers are sitting around at The Villages ER...waiting for an hour or so to get their fare admitted. Perhaps this is why it is longer than the past 4 minutes.
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Really StarbuckSammy?? What EMS truck do you ride on? Because I work in TVRH ER as an RN--been there since June fulltime nights with overtime shifts and not one single time that I have been working has a truck been waiting an hour or "hanging out". Most are too busy to do that--they dump and go to the next call- because that is what they do.
Busy season is coming and if more people would save EMS for emergencies and the ER for true emergencies we would decrease the wait time. I'm sorry but the "chest pain for two weeks, headache that has been there for 3 days, tooth pain, swollen leg that started last month"--see your PCP and if you are visiting--FIND AN URGENT CARE and if it is after hours and not a true emergency--then PLEASE wait until the am and see Urgent Care