look this is serious from a health planning standpoint. that medical desert is to. say i came to try to get some medical records and security said it's close i couldn't believe it was closed and i will when i went in the security guards told me that so for sale and all they basically doing 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 i 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 they can help nobody else you know and somebody might not get that opportunity i got a right to keep the chief mccurdy. the middle said that we're luther king is going to be a complete closure to capacity he's going to change from one hundred forty some beds to actually forty two beds for the friends to be overwhelmed pretty quickly so we're going to be going to schools. to see if when the hospital will be challenging so don't the school that was you know just because we're going to be overwhelmed with the professional don't you gauge don't get angry when i hear that you know if you do anything that was you to do it. right and your question. the community had a big name from ok and everybody knows it's called killer king we would get on cd

and 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 underfunded 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 in 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 send it.

to my. psychiatrist. used to be a very simple system that we have to every patient in the closest facility but you close ten hospitals with eight beds at a major that's eighty patients out of our system in the city you don't look well it's you to say it's clear we close our doors here we are close to saturation when our waiting room is for when our all of our yard beds are for these caught and release lines and 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 time we're looking for another hospital we could be across the street from that hospital thinking it. was not what you call it that there. was just one 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 the. place for hospital work it's about a ten mile ride however we are in l.a. and there's a lot of traffic so. very

very very. very very very little. 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's got a worse an issue and there are injuries actually just put it in there and to spread all this way. when 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 and. if it gets really bad going to ten is going to

bone in his bone infection the worst sin are you can you know usual armed because we've been working to prevent that it's really going to be to feel good but neither of us are going to. be in the hospital says two o'clock and not just what is it six o'clock or now six fifteen. if i have insurance just a good thing you know if i may have insurance ok majesty 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 they actually did all the team itself are going to be deceptive 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 little lady in the hospital that's that's normal i've had to rescue a couple weeks and waited for hours for being i've waited sometimes three hours i was it's a same francis and living with her for hours and fifty minutes standing against a wall with patients if they don't have beds are 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 and don't transfer care to a bed it's negligence or even the county can say you know what it was your paramedic license you're gone. 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 and. 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 fibro for twenty eight years and i came on as 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 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. oh you know what i mean i knew for what's going on today they don't plan it was not hard to do now. after i got on the very you know what happens. when are you really this. hungry. off an anime. season you've been here before you have been here

a few times she asked me five or six times over i stared down the mom to be a mother a grandmother the son and the twins and her when she was pregnant with their litter of youngest and their two houses this one another one down if you're. going to be cured that day oh you know i don't remember one time. i think in every ten miles you can stay here were skeptical of entering the system yet six total resident sisters are. everything's looking ok all right we can relax ok else we can do i make it it 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. these are some of the protocols that we do send to we have things such as boils can't sleep they're hungry constipation to think but if somebody says they're hungry what do you tell what are we have to do if i'm given five dollars people local calls. we've been called to you know broken sprinkler system the lawn to a dog and need the chimney you know second to avoid what is old and had to cause gone 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 a percentage of people who actually know the system and it was a jury of people it's not weird you know they don't i won't because we truly need somebody to tell him what to do because this is 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 in the last five

years because lawsuits down to nothing it's paid for itself. at the expense. to the taxpayers of the expense of the individual who wants the right at the expense of the of the ripple effect of filling the little beds. with non-critical patients. i know gas prices are high but. i know i can get to the local emergency room for a lot cheaper in my own personal vehicle if i have the flu. and the company will look at that and say wow we're paramedics really warranted on this and then they won't 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 dollars 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.

that will help you. now. he's a diabetic or whatever it takes two days of whatever he had to say instantly he never wants to. take all primary and let me have a look at them. he says no we can't force him to talk to him and not then we can then yes that he does i know. we need someone who is this is autistic we need his permission to let my medics. know he's agreed to let. you know 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 form.

starts to go searching teary. all that stuff right now he has no complaints your city feels fine he answered all of course questions appropriately. please let me finish and it sure is one three it's within normal limits. his blood pressure after after that if there's nothing that he wants from us right unfortunate there's 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 a last ten days why are they here again you know when you see a patient they got a response going to the hospice it. was the most thirteen detachments 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 new paramedics they're experiencing the same thing i had a guy from here just in the last week paramedic burnout talked about in his area. a guy from new york. paramedic paramedic burn out for a great mission. in the field with this 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. 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 they. want you. know. we just take

a patient to martin luther king with knowledge on 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 a bed 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 you haven't. actually injected 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 scare the scene keeps us up at night is that essentially a pandemic flu it will take about. twelve hours before every hospital you are is overwhelmed. by. the forty three year old recipes that they preferred order yeah well now you said have you heard of the emergency rule there's no other

way we can do while you're at the emergency room right now. well can't they help be there at the emergency room. a lot of times they think you know i want you to take us in the ambulance because we'll be seen faster. in the e.r. . into the emergency room was would be transported from one hospital to the other because you know use an i pod he would present theories are 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 misuse and abuse and eventually it'll break.

it up with water on. the metal detectors you're already in the hospital on the moment. i'm trying to get an interpreter for you certainly movement and i won yesterday by now one of them are clean. and you know by the time of his people on the bed it was all day all 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 be in the fight against somebody in blood ok and why aren't they helping or that i'll get to watch it or. you're not doing it and they're just watching her ok eat the contact the nurse or

doctor let them know bombing blood they don't believe me they're not gonna let him in if he's causing a problem he needs to contact the county police officers at the security dept there was no. 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. you know there. are like this one right there that i think that the florida courts were going to prevent. their lives and that of the other you're right but you're at the hospital ma'am. i cannot speak for you for the quality of the hospital they're very

likely to want to you from are going to break. out of the merge mail if it is not the operator ok well that's not a criminal thing. your contract awfully by. the we. just mind i want you to use for only where i live. it is not. a hang. up to 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 and they're 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 of the latest fad it yes i know a lot of that is out. there you go pretty mad yaquis you love in an ideal world for us need to open up those county clinics and so we have some place for individuals

will walk into before they become in crisis the need actually nine i want to service it all comes down the phones really 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. mandy we have right now to serve everybody in this community.

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