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I wonder whether it's only me who noticed this. As time passes, I hear the ambulance sirens more and more often. Lately there have been days I have heard them five or even more times. Even a year before, it used to be once a week or even less, and now it has become something I hear all the time.

I wonder whether it's only me who noticed this. As time passes, I hear the ambulance sirens more and more often. Lately there have been days I have heard them five or even more times. Even a year before, it used to be once a week or even less, and now it has become something I hear all the time.

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I'm an emt so I hear them every day. I'm in a town with a bunch of retirees and about 5 nursing homes. A lot of our traffic comes from old people thinking theyre having a heart attack(a lot are) and nursing homes because nurses can't be arsed to do their job. Pepop stubbed his toe? Er. Sneeze? Covid. No shit. At the VA, some dumb nurse called us for "altered mental status " on a patient, and she thought he was having a stroke because he was incoherent. come to find out he had dementia, which she would've found if she checked his record. We checked his face, no droop, and checked the strength in his hands and limbs to find one-sided weakness. All good, so we left. She filed a complaint against us because we didn't take him.

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nursing homes because nurses can't be arsed to do their job.

I work in LTC and very much this. Although sending people out too much now affects our reimbursement.

A large effort by the company was made to get nurses to hesitate to send people out. We even contracted with Telehealth so nurses could get an instant consultation between patients and doctors before calling 911.

Everything was getting better until covid. Now with staffing shortages nurses don't have time to determine if it is a critical situation or can be dealt with in house. So they just send the fuckers out.