Comments on: Emergency Medicine at the Breaking Point…. http://buyempblog.com/2006/10/emergency-medicine-at-the-breaking-point/ EMS Blog Tue, 24 May 2011 06:39:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: B Camp http://buyempblog.com/2006/10/emergency-medicine-at-the-breaking-point/comment-page-1/#comment-8 B Camp Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:16:18 +0000 http://www.buyempblog.com/?p=22#comment-8 Why dont hospitals have an emergency dept for critical care and have an non emergency room for cold and sniffles? Interns could work the non emergency room and those in trauma could work the emergency dept. Why use up a room and bed for non critical needs? Why dont hospitals have an emergency dept for critical care and have an non emergency room for cold and sniffles? Interns could work the non emergency room and those in trauma could work the emergency dept. Why use up a room and bed for non critical needs?

]]> By: Francis EMT-B (Ghana) http://buyempblog.com/2006/10/emergency-medicine-at-the-breaking-point/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Francis EMT-B (Ghana) Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:12:03 +0000 http://www.buyempblog.com/?p=22#comment-7 Hello, Thanks so much for putting up together all that information. It is really the reality on the ground that Emergency workiners are facing all aorund the globe. Often here in Ghana it is the same problems that we face here. Sometimes you will pick up and sustain cretically ill trauma patients but on arrival at the Hospital all you hear is that there are no beds to care for these people. Sometimes it can be so fraustrating. Anyway i would like to have information more on EMT-B employers in American Rural Areas. If you care to know i was Awarded the Overall BEST EMT-B during our training session for 2006-2007 here in Ghana. Let me hear from you again. Hello,
Thanks so much for putting up together all that information. It is really the reality on the ground that Emergency workiners are facing all aorund the globe.

Often here in Ghana it is the same problems that we face here. Sometimes you will pick up and sustain cretically ill trauma patients but on arrival at the Hospital all you hear is that there are no beds to care for these people.
Sometimes it can be so fraustrating.
Anyway i would like to have information more on EMT-B employers in American Rural Areas.
If you care to know i was Awarded the Overall BEST EMT-B during our training session for 2006-2007 here in Ghana.
Let me hear from you again.

]]> By: Tim EMT-P http://buyempblog.com/2006/10/emergency-medicine-at-the-breaking-point/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Tim EMT-P Tue, 12 Dec 2006 06:22:08 +0000 http://www.buyempblog.com/?p=22#comment-6 Wow! thank You for taking the time to type that all up. It does slap us in the face with the reality of what we as Providers have to endure day in and day out. I really feel sorry for what some of us are having to go through to get the patient the care that they deserve. Yes some of the calls we go on are just " toe pains" but there is a reason they called. It could be that they really need help and it could be that they don't know who to call. A lot of what I do and preach to my commrades is to educate the public. Yes you can do that until you are blue in the face, however it may assist the patient to make an informed decision and maybe not go to the ER. They may decide to go to a primary physcian or even a minor emergency office. This may help not clog up the ERs so that someone that needs a bed may get one. The other part of our dilema is the fact that alot of medical offices want insurance coverage and cash up front. This may exclude alot of our society which leaves them no choice but to call 911. Unfortunatley, the "fix" may have to come from a major overhaul of the healthcare system. I think that drum has been beat before. I do agree with your Governmental program of health care, other countries do it. I am a volunteer in a small town in Texas and work for a major city as well. I have the luxury of driving patients to more that one big city. One city is very receptive to EMS providers and you may wait 20 -30 minutes to get a patient off your stretcher. On the other hand, another city I dread to go to will bounce you to 5 different ER encodes before finding one that will take your patient. Hang in there Yall. I know that some of you do what you do for the money, and some of you do what you do for the love of the job. I know that's why I do it. Mr. Bassett, you have hit so many nails on the head with your article, you should be a home builder! Wow! thank You for taking the time to type that all up. It does slap us in the face with the reality of what we as Providers have to endure day in and day out. I really feel sorry for what some of us are having to go through to get the patient the care that they deserve. Yes some of the calls we go on are just ” toe pains” but there is a reason they called. It could be that they really need help and it could be that they don’t know who to call. A lot of what I do and preach to my commrades is to educate the public. Yes you can do that until you are blue in the face, however it may assist the patient to make an informed decision and maybe not go to the ER. They may decide to go to a primary physcian or even a minor emergency office. This may help not clog up the ERs so that someone that needs a bed may get one.
The other part of our dilema is the fact that alot of medical offices want insurance coverage and cash up front. This may exclude alot of our society which leaves them no choice but to call 911.
Unfortunatley, the “fix” may have to come from a major overhaul of the healthcare system. I think that drum has been beat before. I do agree with your Governmental program of health care, other countries do it.
I am a volunteer in a small town in Texas and work for a major city as well. I have the luxury of driving patients to more that one big city. One city is very receptive to EMS providers and you may wait 20 -30 minutes to get a patient off your stretcher. On the other hand, another city I dread to go to will bounce you to 5 different ER encodes before finding one that will take your patient.
Hang in there Yall. I know that some of you do what you do for the money, and some of you do what you do for the love of the job. I know that’s why I do it. Mr. Bassett, you have hit so many nails on the head with your article, you should be a home builder!

]]> By: Karen - EMT-B http://buyempblog.com/2006/10/emergency-medicine-at-the-breaking-point/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Karen - EMT-B Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:02:08 +0000 http://www.buyempblog.com/?p=22#comment-5 Thank you so much for this article. It was excellent and extremely informational and right on target. Again, thanks for the time in writing. Thank you so much for this article. It was excellent and extremely informational and right on target. Again, thanks for the time in writing.

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