• Blake [he/him]@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    Article is misleading as fuck. A third of life or death 999 ambulance calls are not attended by a paramedic… they’re attended by a doctor, who has significantly more training than a paramedic.

    Can’t make this shit up. The NHS is under-funded as fuck and the Guardian is complaining about the one thing that isn’t a problem

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      1 year ago

      The article states that some of the calls not attended by paramedics may be attended by an EMT.

      So, the complete opposite of your comment.

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          1 year ago

          So one spokesperson who is paid to male the NHS look good in front of the media claims that “some” incidents were responded to by a doctor. That some could be just the one.

          Where there are multiple sources in the article claiming statistics of the number of incidents that do not have a paramedic on site, just EMTs.

          Yeah, not buying your “mountain out of a molehill” argument.