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What else do you think they were doing in those six hours, sitting on their arses drinking tea and eating buns?
A broken arm is not life threatening, you can make your own way to hospital and people rarely need an ambulance TBH.
i think if i chopped off my finger, i would be dialing for an ambulance
if i saw someone else chop off their finger and blood was spurting everywhere, i would help, i am a qualified first aider but i would also phone an ambulance
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Ah, but how many did they deal with over the phone and how many did they send to their GP/ to make their own way to A&E? That's the redirect part
a) No-one suggests that he should drive himself and if he was on his own I suspect[i/] that they would have gone out to him.
b) How quickly in your [medical?] opinion is quick enough?
the "and" in that comment is the important part. Being a first aider you should know that "spurting" is unlikely to happen from the top of a finger.
Suggest that you read the thread then, because that wasn't going to happen in this case.
Dammit, I knew that would happen lol.
Shit happens
That sounds like excellent prioritising to me.
The mother could- and should- have made her own way to A&E by car or by taxi.
I can tell that most people on here live in cities- in most rural areas the quickest way to hospital is in your own car. And whilst Bedlington is not a rural town, it is in the most rural county in England, and it is about 3 miles from A&E at Wansbeck General Hospital. Not sending an ambulance shows that the triage is working.
The ambulance would have taken him to A&E at Wansbeck, too, y'know. The "local" hospital with the specialist plastic surgeons is a piffling 35 miles from Bedlington.
Please elaborate on this? Just because someone is in alot of pain doesn't mean they should be sent an ambulance, does it?:rolleyes:
That really doesn't make much sense. My dad was in a lot of pain when he was taken seriously ill in the summer, but as he hadn't collapsed, we took him to A&E in the car as it's only a 2 minute drive. Other than the fact that it'd be quicker than calling, waiting, getting him into the ambulance, etc, our ambulance service covers all the villages surrounding the town, some of which are quite far (in emergency situations at any rate), so I agree with the opinion that if you don't need an ambulance, you don't call one.
So I did and it cleared up nicely with minimal scarring. But gosh it hurt. Anyway, my point is, I should have been in a hospital, but as MoK said, an ambulance isn't a taxi, and they weren't there to take me to a hospital.
I try not to depend on ambulances, I see them as an 'emergency only' service, for example if there's a really bad road accident or something. If people are still concious and lucid and aren't in immediate danger, and there is other transport available, then an ambulance is a waste really. The fact the clinic he went to wasn't able to reattach his finger is tough luck -> my uncle had three heart attacks on one day and went to glenfield hospital, which is apparently world ranked for heart treatment. He got lucky, sometimes you don't.
I wouldn't call that lucky, I'd call that a good service
I've always received excellent treatment, even when I've been in the mental health service.
Dirty fucking gays, taking all our jobs, dirtying our streets, refusing to speak our language (most lesbians speak in tongues or so I hear).
Does to me. The SHO I eventually saw when I went back to A&E after some of the stitches pulled through in my wound from surgery did a very good job of redoing the stitches and putting plenty of local anaesthetic in.
However I had to wait standing in the waiting room for 2 hours (or lie on the floor) because I was unable to sit because of the surgery I had had, and I had to argue and complain and shout and sulk to get to see this SHO who actually knew anything about the operation I had had.
Good job done, bad service.
... and who was either treating other patients (possibly on the ward), in theatre or maybe even finally getting some kip.
Still no-one ever thinks about that aspect do they, me, me, me.