What an ambulance can do for you:
If you are truly having an emergency, a medic crew can provide life saving interventions. We carry meds like epinephrine, nitro, adenosine, cardizem... We have CPAP, we can start IVs, IOs, needle decompress, cardiovert, defibrillate....
If you have a sinus infection....we can give you a piece of guaze to blow your nose (we dont even carry tissues)
If you sprained something-we have icepacks
If you have a headache-we have childrens ibuprofen
If your nauseated, we may offer you a shot in the butt of zofran.
If we just sit and talk with you the entire trip to the hospital, you are either a psych patient, a homeless person who wants a warm place to sleep, or a worthless pansy.
An ambulance DOES NOT, I repeat, DOES NOT get you seen faster. I will put you out in the waiting room and you will wait just as long.
An ambulance ride DOES cost an arm and a leg, and if it is non-emergent medicare/medicaid and most other major insurance companies will NOT cover it.
Brian's in PSYOP, maybe I can get him to print this in a pamphlet and we can air drop thousands of them on Fayetteville....
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