Blood pouring out of your finger? It'd not an emergency, apparently
Multiland
18-02-2007, 20:03
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006550876,00.html
I could understand if he'd just stubbed his finger or broken it, but blood pouring out of it? How can that not be an emergency???
Lunatic Goofballs
18-02-2007, 20:09
Good thing John Wayne Bobbitt didn't live there. :eek:
So what? Thats never happened to you?
[/Sarcasm]
So what? Thats never happened to you?
HE LOST THE FINGER. Had an ambulance been sent it's quite possible the finger could have been saved.
Cypresaria
18-02-2007, 20:59
I once stuck a stanly knife through a finger, blood dripping out quite keenly:eek:
Got a taxi to hospital with said finger wrapped in a towel.
Walked upto the desk and said ' I need some help, I've cut my finger':(
The snotty receptionist said 'is it urgent?' :upyours:
I unwrapped my finger and started to bleed all over the desk and said 'Dunno, what do you think?':D
El-Presidente Boris
So what? Thats never happened to you?
He lost about an inch of his finger. I would have liked an ambulance.
HE LOST THE FINGER. Had an ambulance been sent it's quite possible the finger could have been saved.
He lost about an inch of his finger. I would have liked an ambulance.
I was joking, probably would have been a good idea to add a "[/sarcasm]" in there, eh?
Yossarian Lives
18-02-2007, 21:19
HE LOST THE FINGER. Had an ambulance been sent it's quite possible the finger could have been saved.
Seems a bit unlikely. By the time an ambulance got to you you probably wouldn't save a huge amount of time. The big issue is that they expected someone suffering from shock and blood loss to make his own way there. He had someone to drive him but if he hadn't he'd have had to risk driving himself. And the worse thing about the story is that they try to defend the decision.
Seems a bit unlikely. By the time an ambulance got to you you probably wouldn't save a huge amount of time. The big issue is that they expected someone suffering from shock and blood loss to make his own way there. He had someone to drive him but if he hadn't he'd have had to risk driving himself. And the worse thing about the story is that they try to defend the decision.
...err, yes, there is that as well, which was ridiculous.
I was joking, probably would have been a good idea to add a "[/sarcasm]" in there, eh?
Probably, yeah. :p
Free Soviets
18-02-2007, 22:03
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHpFfgCiagE
Snafturi
18-02-2007, 22:16
...While on the other side of the pond you can get an ambulance ride for an in grown toe nail.:rolleyes:
Celtlund
18-02-2007, 22:17
If this had happened in the US the lawyers would be begging him to let them take the case.
Deus Malum
18-02-2007, 22:19
And in Soviet Russia, Ambulance rides YOU!
Teen Drama
18-02-2007, 22:36
I had something similar (though not as threatening to my finger, still lots of blood and shock). My boss took me down to the hospital, no fuss just superglued me back together and sent me back to work *shrugs*.
Infinite Revolution
18-02-2007, 23:18
the stupidest thing about that article is it said the nurses were "horrified". A&E nurses see nasty, bloody, severous injuries all the time, i hardly think this one caused them that much fuss.
Lunatic Goofballs
19-02-2007, 02:08
...While on the other side of the pond you can get an ambulance ride for an in grown toe nail.:rolleyes:
and a $600 charge on your insurance. :)
Dododecapod
19-02-2007, 19:48
The one that gets me is the comment by the ambulance service. "Not in danger" MY ASS! Blood loss through a severed finger can be quite major. Without help, the poor guy could very well have bled to death.
Multiland
19-02-2007, 20:01
...While on the other side of the pond you can get an ambulance ride for an in grown toe nail.:rolleyes:
That's daft.
the stupidest thing about that article is it said the nurses were "horrified". A&E nurses see nasty, bloody, severous injuries all the time, i hardly think this one caused them that much fuss.
I think the 'horrified' perhaps refers to the fact they were horrified that the ambulance service ignored the guy
The one that gets me is the comment by the ambulance service. "Not in danger" MY ASS! Blood loss through a severed finger can be quite major. Without help, the poor guy could very well have bled to death.
True. I had a dodgy dentist once and could have died due to blood loss as my tooth continued to bleed (he'd messed up the job - WHITECROSS DENTAL CARE, MANCHESTER, ENGLAND) and when I went back and another dentist sorted it, he told me I could have bled to death. The ambulance service are supposed to know what a life threatening situation is, and they're supposed to send an ambulance. If the guy hadn't managed to get to hospital and just left his finger to bleed (or tried to seal it with a plaster or bandage, with no medical training on how the latter should best be done to save the finger and stop the bleeding), of course he would have died from blood loss. Lots of continuous blood loss is a life threatening situation, whether it's tooth, finger, or other.
and a $600 charge on your insurance. :)
Yeh, but some people don't mind that. Ambulances shouldn't be diverted to non-life-threatening situations.