yeah well when i went in the security guard told me that a so for sale and all they basically billing here is film movies now. and i was shocked can believe that this is what's going on now you know it was a great hospital this is the last house but i was in in two thousand to when i got shot. it was a sunday afternoon around twelve o'clock and just two cars came in and it was a big shoot out and i just happened to roll by and i caught a bullet in my spine. i came with my legs i'm paralyzed you know if it wasn't for the people that were here i don't think i would have made it the way i made it because that was a little kid i was seventeen years old when this happened to me i go to school and i go to college you know and if it wasn't for them i went forward i even drive now i do everything i'm independent and it's for these people and leg it to help nobody else you know and somebody might not get that opportunity i got the right keep the

chief mccurdy. the middle said that we're luther king is going to be a complete closure but the capacity is going to change from one hundred forty some beds to actually forty two beds see friends to be overwhelmed pretty quickly so we're going to be going to schools. to see this when the hospitals the challenge we don't don't the school that was you know just because we're going to be overwhelmed with. the professionals. don't you gauge getting agreement here that you do need to do it. right and your question. the community has a big name for an ok and everybody knows it's called killer king we would get on see the first thing people would ask is where might it be transported and if we said mark was u.k. you know often response was please don't take medicaid. they're understaffed under-funded and they had too many patients that didn't have private physicians and

with four or five hundred patients in an emergency room it's very difficult to treat those into the hospital through medical center is in critical condition and the candor was in the bottom two and a half percent of all hospitals in the state of california health officials a patient there had been put in quote and media jeopardy patients and martin luther king medical center to get ready for fewer services and a new way we cannot assure that patients would be safe or that fundamental hospital standards can be met the proposed closure of the trauma center will have an impact the l.a. county fire department i'm begging of you don't ignore this. don't marginalize this . warrant hard time and that. my. psychiatrist.

used to be a very simple system that would have to every patient in the closest facility but you close ten hospitals with eight beds or to meet eighty patients out of our system in the city she didn't look well let's just say the sat scores we close our doors here we are close to saturation when our waiting room is four went on all of our yard beds are for these cot and early signs waiting in the hallway and we're. basically closing to saturation for safety purposes you know the sort of suppressed right so diversion is a huge thing for some of our hospitals down here they're on diversion about ninety percent of the time so ninety percent of the time we're looking for another hospital we could be across the street from that hospital you can obtain. what you call it and let them do it because you're going to easy. for a harbor u.c.l.a.

by saturday for say fast is a sad i miss we're going to kaiser bellflower because on the line for hospital. it's about a ten mile above all right however we are in l.a. and there's a lot of traffic so. they're very very. very very very little here.

and. for the average american who has insurance they don't realize the impact of what's going on. what's going on in the obviously they think it's a problem of the uninsured of someone else he got a worst mishal liquor injury actually just put it in there and spread all this way . and you see something is interfering with the not ok ok so when you do this you can tell that it's not in attendance which is a really really bad infection because. because ruben good to attend is going to bone in his bone infection the worst so he could you know usually armed because we've got we're going to prevent that that's really going to feel good but none of us are going to. be in the hospital since two o'clock and not just what is it six o'clock right now six fifteen. it i have insurance just a good thing you know if i may have insurance ok magister we standing aside we did

say we're waiting six hours is not uncommon and if you go to surrounding hospitals people coming here tell me they're waiting twelve hours sometimes to get back however u.c.l.a. right now at this moment it's a twenty four hours meaning as soon as you walk in the door and they try and figure out you're not critical basically you're someone and they could definitely live for another couple of days before being critical they'll keep you in the waiting room and you have to sit there and wait to be seen. it has happened at certain hospitals i've gone and actually did all the team itself again we just sat there and waited so we're missing calls in our district because our he's tied up at the hospital because you know how they had to put that patient in the lady in the hospital that's that's normal i've had to rescue a couple weeks and waited four hours for being i've waited sometimes three hours i wouldn't say same francis in lynnwood for four hours and fifty minutes standing against a wall of patients if they don't have beds you're going to wait and because even

though we're inside there you know we're still on scene with that patient if we if we leave the hospital don't transfer care to a bed is negligence or even the county can say you know what it was your paramedic license and you go on. the river here if we don't have a paramedic i said we do a back to the firefighter only. so how many calls to get last night four calls after midnight three out of the four calls we had were people just basic cold and flu symptoms sniffle. sniffles and. nausea vomiting diarrhea and been sick for. three four days and just said uncle. smoke anything at all. to do. it in the fire burn for twenty eight years and i came on to say a single function firefighter when i came on the job. and back then we actually

only respond by four or five different types of the m. s. calls responded on chest pain as heart attacks car accidents and drowned days and if you called with a sprained thumb or a broken finger the dispatcher back then told you to get the car to go to the hospital so a lot has changed. the whole euro i've been on you for what's going on today. and if you don't find it well now because you're an. actor i go i want to say you know what happened to get in are you ready for this three. hundred. one anime. season you've been here before you have been here a few times in the past week five or six times over i steered down the mom to be on the mother the grandmother the son and the tweens and her when she was pregnant with their material youngest and they have two houses this one another one down if you're. young hickory earlier today oh you know i don't remember the one time. i

think every time. you stay here would skip security for entering since you have six total resident sisters has it everything's looking ok all right you can relax ok else we didn't i mean gator could be good. i will see going to later have a good day. a good station i think it's part i mean everybody's understanding what emergency is different but i mean people been called out for a bandaid thinking that all we are is you know a system that they can call and literally can. you couple band-aids and i mean. get the words called you want to show you that. some of the programs that we do send to we have things such as boils can't sleep they're hungry conflict to think but if somebody says they're hungry what do you tell them what are we have to do is i've given five dollars people local calls. we've been called to you know

broken sprinkler system the lawn to the dog and you the chimney. or what is all that and had to cause you to go on which makes it all fun at the same time it's like. where do you draw the line yeah you're always going to have that percentage of people who actually know the system and it was a jury of people it's not weird but you know they don't i won't because we truly need somebody to tell him what to do because this was their first room sort of had to deal worked out we have a transportation policy on the farm and we offer transportation to everybody on this it's a minor extremity injury since we've had that system which is an image of the last five years because lawsuits down to nothing it's paid for itself. at the expense. to the taxpayers is the expense of the individual who wants the right at the expense of the the ripple effect of filling the spittal beds. with

non-critical patients. i know gas prices are high but. i know i can get to the local mercy room for a lot cheaper in my own personal vehicle if i have the flu and the insurance company will look at that and say well what were paramedics really wanted on this and then they will pay. and then the citizens get stuck with a bill. i really do believe that every patient should pay something for their care because one of the problems we also have in this country is that health care is not valued we have the most expensive health care system in the world and it's probably valued the least people are going to have to begin to take responsibility for their health care. pay something it can start small. perhaps a five dollar co-pay for an emergency visit. i think it will change behavior as

well. something happened down the question is what. here we've closed hospitals in the last ten years and over a thousand. of these burger kings they contribute to the high blood pressure diabetes and everything else in the sense i mean if you could tax cigarettes. fast food restaurants pay for some of the stuff. i would like. to help you. now how can we help if he's a diabetic or whatever it takes it's like two days of whatever he has it instantly

he never wants to. take off and let me have every fucking thing he says no we can't force him out and talk to him and not then we can then yes that he does i know. we need so anyway this is all we need his permission to let my medics. know he's agreed to let. you know that if he doesn't want to. be he's agree weren't taken aback. ok then you're welcome. i know you do you know what the best for him. and started searching teary. you can avoid all that stuff right now he has no complaints feels fine he answered all or pushed questions appropriately. please let me finish

in his sugars world three it's within normal limits. his blood pressure after after that if there's nothing that he wants from us right unfortunate just nothing else that we can do for him by law ok i'm yeah we do get frustrated and it's only us but it's the nurses in the hospitals it's also the doctors i've seen them just blow up you know like why i see this person every day for the last ten days why are they here again you know when you see a patient i got a response going to the hospice it's. mostly a miscarriage kiki attachments in a six nine three. it's time to get to a lot of. personnel down here and i'm pretty sure it's. seven california is not. the only area where it's happening now firefighters coming from different states who want to apply the l.a. city and the paramedics are experiencing the same thing i had a guy from here just in the last week no paramedic burnout talked about his area.

from new york. paramedic paramedic burnout for a great mission. in the field with the shield the shield is it still doesn't mean the other rescue at our station is available so they get the next cough which means we get the chance to take a shower and pressure teeth so we don't get our showers interrupted jimmy page. and you know all these rescues here we're probably going to be waiting for a while because i think we just got the last available that that's what i. want you . know. we just take a patient to martin luther king with nausea and vomiting which. just in the emergency room and based on her level of severity so get to bed. we got there before a few other patients and she got to bed now the other patients are going to wait

even though they might have more. severe problems they might have to wait for that for hours. if martin luther king you know even if they just limit their number of beds which they're planning on doing to forty two beds then that's going to be repercussions for everybody so. hopefully it won't get to the point where it's going to be affecting patient care to the point where people are going to be waiting for such long times that they're not going to be getting treated as they should so we'll see what happens. if you actually inject right check out the vehicle and the passenger. there is no one in the end to this we are the county hospital for the poor and yet we're the trauma center for everyone on the south bay area of los angeles. so it makes no difference if you have the best insurance in the world or no insurance the next time you're in a traffic accident if god forbid we have an earthquake or

a bioterrorist attack we are the place that you want to come we're the place you're going to be brought regardless of where you want to come and if we're overcrowded and have no gurneys you're going to be in trouble you're not going to get the kind of care that you deserve. it's not the train wrecks that really scare us and keep us up at night it would scares a scene keeps us up at night is that essentially a pandemic flu it will take about. twelve hours before every hospital your is overwhelmed. by. the forty three year old recipes that they create a quarter yeah well now you said have you heard of the emergency rule there's another way we can do will use your head the emergency room right now. well can't they help me there at the emergency room. a lot of times they think oh no i want you to take us in the ambulance because we'll be seen faster. in the e.r.

. into the emergency room wasn't be transported from one hospital to the other because you know years and i hollywood presbyterians or you want to go to kaiser no. i know we can do that. now one of those was. with a tool that was developed and like any tool you have you don't have a set of instructions along with the tool is going to be you misuse and abuse and eventually you don't break.

out of it what are the bombs. the metal structures you are ready and i put them on a moment in there and i'm trying to get an interpreter for you thermal movement film and i want to get sketched by now what is the bird's point. in you know by the time of his temple on the bed it was all day on the emergency room my wife is about is dying and then there's a don't want to help you out ok what am i going to get in the bed and your body will blood ok and why aren't they helping or yeah i'll get the watch in or. you're not doing it and they're just watching her ok eat the contact the nurse or doctor let them know hey mom any blood they don't believe me and they're not gonna let him in if he's causing a problem he's a contract a county police officer at the security dept there was no. doubt medics are not

going to pick him up our pick is why apart from optical coaches are already at. one hundred fifty one. with the persian gulf a little bit on the ground. well. look you know there. are like there's one right there but i think that the longer we're going to prevent . their lives than that of the other you're not you're at the hospital ma'am i don't like them i cannot speak for you for the quality of the hospital they're very likely to want to you from are going to drag it out of the merge man if it is not a murder. maybe they're ok well that's not a criminal thing. than a. contract off the ceiling by. the police have been to do with them this morning

and i want to use for only their life. it is not. a hit. after that incident we actually have patients who are actually not in the e.r. but in the ward but they're not getting timely treatment in the world they want more pain medication don't pick up the phone and dial nine one one so we're sending the m.s. captain out to the eighteenth floor of the hospital to provide more pain medication for patients inside there you know you know one of. our firefighters paramedics are

incredible. you know we make that we're constantly doing training and more training more training and they stepping up to fill that gap but is that what we want as a society for the fire department to become the health care system. a big part of the fix is more primary and preventive care if the people with diabetes and high blood pressure get treated early then they don't come in here with heart attacks and strokes. and yet out there is that this thought out that sam is out. there you go pre-match yaquis you love in an ideal world for us need to open up those county clinics and there so we have some place for individuals will walk into before they become in crisis and need actually nine i want to service it all comes down the phones but it's a catch twenty two you know situation so what we did here fire season sixty five we've added two more rescues that we can put into place if things get really bad

which they do a lot here is. is it a band-aid yes but it's his only mandate we have right now to serve everybody in this community. and. let's. cut. cut cut cut cut cut. cut cut it was no no no you know

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