Re: Re: Ambulance Promotes Hospital’s ER Waiting Time | WTAW

January 1, 2011

At first that was what I thought that the message was saying. At first I thought

that would be great, and fascinating, but after thinking about it, I imagine

that when the wait time was too long for a patient's liking, they would be much

more adamant about receiving treatment from the ambulance and not being

transported to the emergency room. Regardless of the time, I think it would

focus the patient on the emergency room and takes them away from the scene.

They'd brush off anything that was happening with the paramedic, because they're

two steps ahead of where our focus is.

Of course, each person would react differently and unpredictably. I'm just not

sure that advertising the wait time would be the greatest idea we've had in

emergency medicine.

Though, I am fascinated to hear what everyone else thinks about this. I think

that it really comes down to a very fundamental question about our profession -

do we exist solely as extensions of the hospital, there to serve them, or are we

a new sort of medical practitioner?

Alyssa Woods, NREMT-B

> I heard that the med wanted to have an active time ticker that would display

the waiting time of the ER but Guardian did not want to do it.

>

> >

> > Ron

> >

> >

Recommended Posts