17 years ago on a Saturday night, just before bedtime, my 4yo son was being a dufus and managed to break his collarbone. Before we knew it was broken (but knew something was obviously wrong) I took him to the emergency room. We were stuck waiting about 6 hours to be seen. The nurse that triaged us was extremely apologetic and literally stated “I’m so sorry you’ve had to wait so long, we’re stuck having to see the drunken scraped knees first just because they came in an ambulance.”
I’m assuming that if my son were bleeding out he would be seen faster, but I’ve assumed that in non-life threatening situations that ambulances receive priority.
Interesting, now I wonder if our ambulances even carry people for bullshit reasons, if they don’t, it’d make sense that those are always actual emergencies.
Why would anyone even think that?
17 years ago on a Saturday night, just before bedtime, my 4yo son was being a dufus and managed to break his collarbone. Before we knew it was broken (but knew something was obviously wrong) I took him to the emergency room. We were stuck waiting about 6 hours to be seen. The nurse that triaged us was extremely apologetic and literally stated “I’m so sorry you’ve had to wait so long, we’re stuck having to see the drunken scraped knees first just because they came in an ambulance.”
I’m assuming that if my son were bleeding out he would be seen faster, but I’ve assumed that in non-life threatening situations that ambulances receive priority.
Where was this
Illinois, one of the Chicago suburbs.
Interesting, which country was that?
United States, medium sized hospital in the Chicago suburbs.
Because I’ve literally been told that by hospital staff (in Germany). This may vary by country.
Interesting, now I wonder if our ambulances even carry people for bullshit reasons, if they don’t, it’d make sense that those are always actual emergencies.
Well see ambulance is faster than walking so you advance in the line faster. Makes sense
Wishful thinking? Entitlement? Main character syndrome? Some kind of nonsense.