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[–] 40 points 5 days ago (5 children)

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.)

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  • [–] 42 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago

    We seem to in Japan. I see posters here every now and then. It basically says, "are you sure it's an emergency," and lists symptoms that might not be appropriate for calling an ambulance like having a slight fever or a hangover.

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  • [–] 20 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    If that's the case, I imagine it would be better to charge people for frivolous use, rather than charge everyone. Or come up with a system where dispatch sends something else for non-emergency, if you can tell.

    I'm not a policy expert, but the current system is bad for everyone.

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