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Badly burned 1-year-old denied ambulance
The Local ^ | August 9, 2009

Posted on 08/09/2009 4:30:35 AM PDT by NCjim

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Maybe they'd reached their quota of calls for the day?
1 posted on 08/09/2009 4:30:35 AM PDT by NCjim
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I guess he should have just taken the pain pill.


2 posted on 08/09/2009 4:32:26 AM PDT by NeoConfederate
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Dat’s RIGHT. He ain’t a taxpayuh, so he ain’t paid his doooos. So he don’t dezerv no stinkin amblance. Now if he wuz in duh union, dat would be diffrent

(Spoken like a union thug.)


3 posted on 08/09/2009 4:37:05 AM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (It's soft tyranny, folks. It's smiley-faced fascism.)
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In London you might die if you have the misfortune to collapse during the EU-enforced lunch hour.

999 Team Lunch as Man Dies

4 posted on 08/09/2009 4:41:47 AM PDT by Sender (It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
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These European system are the ones that the leftist pushing health care “reform” in America always hold up as shining examples of great systems.
NO THANKS Obama regime. I think I wouldlike to stick with the best healthcare system in the world today.


5 posted on 08/09/2009 4:43:10 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Proud to have made Communist Leader Obama's hit list at flag@whitehouse.gov)
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I am actually on the side of the hospital on this one.

For burns like that you get in the car and go.

I am not sure why they had come to expect someone else to come and get them- except thtat this is what socialized medicine gets you.

Whenever you need a band-aid you expect a doctor and 3 nurses to come rushing to your aid, which uses up the resources until rationing takes place.

I am illustrating a point, not complaining that this boy deservedit or anything (we have way too many knee-jerkers here lately)


6 posted on 08/09/2009 4:43:37 AM PDT by Mr. K (THIS ADMINISTRATION IS WEARING OUT MY CAPSLOCK KEY DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT!!!!!)
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Holy cow. This stuff is scary to say the least. I don’t see how people overlook this stuff when they are supporting government healthcare. Ignorance? Stupidity? Blind support of The One? All of the above?


7 posted on 08/09/2009 4:43:58 AM PDT by FreeSouthernAmerican (If Only To Be Left To Live My Own Life)
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Can’t burns cause shock? Burns are also more critical to children. The body can shut down.


8 posted on 08/09/2009 4:45:44 AM PDT by FreeSouthernAmerican (If Only To Be Left To Live My Own Life)
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“The fetus, given the opportunity to develop properly before birth,
and given the essential early socializing experiences
and sufficient nourishing food during the crucial early years after birth,
will ultimately develop into a human being.”
-Science Czar, John P. Holdren,
director of the White House Office of Science and Technology.

Exactly how long this process of becoming a human being
after birth, the Science Czar did not say.


9 posted on 08/09/2009 4:46:18 AM PDT by Repeal The 17th (I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
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http://www.hmc.psu.edu/healthinfo/b/burns2.htm


10 posted on 08/09/2009 4:47:15 AM PDT by FreeSouthernAmerican (If Only To Be Left To Live My Own Life)
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The union will protect the drivers.


11 posted on 08/09/2009 4:50:20 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: Repeal The 17th

Didn’t he say something of understanding the concept of time in regards to being a human being? Thought I heard that somewhere.


12 posted on 08/09/2009 4:52:40 AM PDT by FreeSouthernAmerican (If Only To Be Left To Live My Own Life)
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Yesterday this same “news” provider had a story about the gov giving up control of the pharmcay industry...due to their own bankruptcy. The comments section looked like stories about Canadian and UK health care. This fits right in with the story in Atlanta about a Doctor who asked, “Why are we going to try what has failed?” Only to be yelled at by his congressman for a reasonable question.


13 posted on 08/09/2009 5:00:47 AM PDT by q_an_a
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Exactly how long this process of becoming a human being after birth, the Science Czar did not say.

I'm even more curious to learn at what point did the "science czar" stop being a human being? He sounds like a member of the Joseph Mengele fan club.

Mark

14 posted on 08/09/2009 5:51:32 AM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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I am actually on the side of the hospital on this one.

For burns like that you get in the car and go.

Yes. I also wonder why a 1 year old was allowed anywhere near a "hot cup of tea."

Sad story.

15 posted on 08/09/2009 5:56:53 AM PDT by MaggieCarta (We're all Detroiters now.)
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Meanwhile, a liberal stubbed their little toe and was rushed to a critical care hospital, with a police escort, with a staff of 4 doctors waiting to kiss it! /s


16 posted on 08/09/2009 6:36:20 AM PDT by rawhide
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Obamacare!


17 posted on 08/09/2009 6:52:40 AM PDT by Charlespg (The Mainstream media is the enemy of democracy destroy the mainstream media)
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"Badly burned 1-year-old denied ambulance"

Preview of Obamacare!

18 posted on 08/09/2009 6:55:15 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the next one...)
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"For burns like that you get in the car and go."

Many assumptions here: did they have a working automobile if so did they have someone able to drive? etc.

19 posted on 08/09/2009 6:57:06 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the next one...)
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Probably not airway issues with a scald with one cup of tea. Probably not full thickness burns either, or circumferential. Probably not abuse. But the dispatcher couldn’t tell over the phone. You also can’t depend on parents to treat burns and pain correctly en route and facial scarring is not what you want to mess with. Not to mention the difficulty driving when your own child is shrieking with pain. Maybe the family had no car.

Now me, I would I would have run water over the burns for ten minutes, packed up the kid with cool wet dressings, and driven him myself, but we’ve also done family transport for all broken bones, chest pain and head trauma (which is maybe not so smart.)

As an EMT I would have no problem transporting child and family - highly appropriate 911 call.


20 posted on 08/09/2009 2:06:08 PM PDT by VeritatisSplendor
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