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Originally Posted by TraceyMooreRN
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
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I don't think you want to be telling these people to self diagnois themselves. I don't think you will find an EMT/Paramedic, doctor or RN who will put themselves out on a limb like that. If a person can't get into an urgent care because it's closed for the night do you really want to accept that your wrong and the patient is in a dangerous situation? Yes, we all feel like the system is abused but negligence is something none of us want to face. By the way, the ER's here do get stacked up in the coming months and the EMS crews do have to wait long periods of time to hand off their patients.