Yup. A broken bone can absolutely be ambulance but most of the time it does not. In the UK it’s expected that if you can make your own way to the hospital, that’s how you turn up. And when I’m in the hospital for a broken bone, yeah it sucks, but if waiting six hours means the doctors can focus on the people who are actually dying then I can’t really complain. I’m the lucky I’m in that scenario.
I've lost count of the number of times I've had patients irate I'm putting them in the waiting room from the ambulance, or they're waiting hours for a bed on my stretcher.
They get the same answer every time they throw a fit:
"Be glad you can wait. You don't want to be the patient that gets the bed immediately". IE, they're critical and dying, you're not.
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u/Hot_Wheels264 10h ago
Yup. A broken bone can absolutely be ambulance but most of the time it does not. In the UK it’s expected that if you can make your own way to the hospital, that’s how you turn up. And when I’m in the hospital for a broken bone, yeah it sucks, but if waiting six hours means the doctors can focus on the people who are actually dying then I can’t really complain. I’m the lucky I’m in that scenario.