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Someone once said an ambulance isn’t your personal taxi to the hospital, like my brother in fuck what do you think it is then?
Exactly, its your personal free ride. Not like a taxi at all.
Yep. It’s free, it’s faster, and it has in-vehicle catering!
At the risk of getting myself a rain of downvotes here:
An ambulance is an expensive and somewhat rare mini-ER on wheels that’s designed to help a small team of expensive and somewhat rare specialists stabilize a dangerous condition on a patient until it reaches a hospital. Since it is important to keep those somewhat rare vehicles and teams in reserve for when they are suddenly urgently needed, you really shouldn’t use one as a taxi to the hospital if whatever your condition is doesn’t call for that.
(Asking enormous sums of money of the patient for the privilege is IMHO still wrong. The decision to use an ambulance or not should not be based on whether you can can easily part with a couple thousand dollars.)
In more civilized countries, they would charge you for abuse if you call an ambulance when you don’t need it. But even the fine is less than this number.
So triage the issue remotely and send the appropriate response.
Stubbed toe? Reimburse a ride share.
Fractured arm? EMT in a lower cost van.
Urgent trauma? Full rig and EMT crew.
I’d be more ok with this if the expensive specialists on board were actually making bank instead of really low wages.
I don’t believe there is a problem of people needlessly calling ambulances.
If that was the case, the appropriate response would not be to charge everyone bank breaking fees for it.