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cause of death: too shy to call ambulance

Didn’t want to inconvenience anyone

Someone else might have needed it more

This happens. 😦

Bear in mind that ambulance companies aren’t diverting EMTs away from a heart attack or traumatic amputation to answer your call.  They’re much more likely to be diverting EMTs from:

• Sitting in an ambulance station or a random parking lot playing Words With Friends and/or developing elaborate company-wide romantic intrigues
• Sitting in a hospital EMS room doing giant stacks of paperwork no one will ever read while trying to make dinner entirely out of saltines and condiments
• Routine transports of people who have to travel by stretcher, who maybe are not happy to be late, but are hardly going to die from it
• Transports which are technically emergencies, but are stuff like vomiting or a sprained ankle where the urgency factor is more like “yeah, you should get that seen” than like “STAT CODE RED CODE BLUE CODE POLKA DOT STAT STAT STAT.”

So if you think you might need an ambulance, call one.  You are not going to single-handedly take down the EMS system by daring to use it.

I’m reblogging it but I would be that person wondering “Do I need this enough” until I died.

I have legitimately done this. Please, take care of yourselves.

Furthermore, guys, we have dispatch. Dispatch makes sure that we’re all where we need to be, so you’re not taking an ambulance away from someone who “needs it more.” 

Let dispatch worry if an ambulance needs to be somewhere else. You just worry about taking care of yourself.

Most of them time we’re passing the time at the station by trying to find where the firefighters hid the remote /this time/ and listening to scary stories on YouTube. Your safety and health is not an inconvenience.

I once called an ambulance to come one fucking block (our apartment was right by the station and it went WEEE-o and arrived) because I was worried that my boyfriend had alcohol poisoning. Of course as soon as the EMTs were there he woke up and was responsive and I felt like a huge idiot, but he had EMT training and to this day assures me that I 100% did the right thing. A false alarm is not a waste of time. It’s a priceless chance to be sure and they’re happy to do it.

when i was a teenager my dad got chest pains from a hot bath and my mom called an ambulance and the whole time he was like “it’s just heartburn sandy come on, don’t call an ambulance” and he grumbled the whole way to the hospital

when they checked him out, whaddaya know, it was in fact a heart attack, and he had to have the little balloon threaded up from his femoral artery to clear the blockage

if he’d tried to drive himself to the hospital (or god forbid, planned to call our gp the next day and just gone to bed) we’d probably have lost him

just call the dang ambulance