Unnecessary ambulance calls

March 29, 2008

Washington Post: “The ambulances come screaming down city streets, rushing on calls to burst boils, clip hangnails and check on smelly body parts. At the cost of $700 a visit . . .

. . . Thirty people accounted for 2,400 emergency transports last year.”

(via a reader tip)



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{ 1 comment }

1 jayparkinsonmd March 30, 2008 at 7:30 am

Back in peds residency in the West Village, we used to call them “Cabulanaces.”
Those were the days…

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