to try to get some medical records in security said it's close i couldn't believe it was closed. yeah well when i went in the security guard 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 shot out and i just happened to roll by and i caught a bullet in my spine. i came to 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 they can help

nobody else you know and somebody might not get that opportunity i got were right this keeps the chief mccurdy. the middle said that we're luther king it's not going to be a complete closure but the capacity is going to change from one hundred forty some beds to actually forty two beds siegfried's to be overwhelmed pretty quickly so we're going to be going to schools. to see if this when the hospitals the challenge you know don't be fooled that it was you know we're going to be overwhelmed with the professionals don't you gauge don't get angry when we hear that you do need to do it. right and your question. the community had to make a name for ok and everybody knows it's called killer king we would get on c.v. and first thing people would ask is where am i going to be transported and if we said mark was u.k. you know often the 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 us those into the hospital through medical center is in critical condition and the cantor 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 i'm thomas and. my. psychiatrist.

used to be a very simple system that would have you took the every patient in the closest facility but you close ten hospitals with eight beds it made sense eighty patients out of our system in the city didn't look well at six in the sat scores we close our doors here and here are close to saturation when our waiting room is for when are all of our yard beds or for angelus lines 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. watch what you

call it that there. was just one things he said. for a harbor u.c.l.a. by saturday for say fast is a sad i know you're going to kaiser bellflower because. my fourth hospital. 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 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 because. if it gets rooted out a good intent is going to bone in his bone infection the worst so he can you know usually armed because we believe we're going to prevent that it's really going to feel good but none of us. have been in the hospital since 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 magister we standing aside we did say we're waiting six hours is not uncommon and if you go to surrounding hospitals people come in 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 in to actually get all the payments off our journey and we just sat there and waited so we're missing calls in our district because our he's tied up at the hospital because they don't have a bed 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 for 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 that there 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 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. to do. when the fire burned 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 pains heart attacks car accidents and drowned is if you called with a spring 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. probably going to be on you for what's going on today. and if you don't find it will not cause you do not. want to say you know what happened to you in are you ready for this three. hundred. off one anime. season you've been here before you have been here a few times in the past week five or six times over last year found a mom to be a mother the grandmother the son and the twins and her when she was pregnant with her with her youngest and they have two houses this one another one down if you're

. younger you're done that oh you know i don't remember the one time. i think every time. you can say he would feel secure a pretty horrendous yes six told residents sisters. day everything's looking ok all right you can relax ok else we can do i make it it could be good. i will see going later every day. i get patients i think huge part i mean everybody's understanding what emergency is different but i mean people been called out for a band-aid thinking that all we are is you know a system that they can call and literally can get a couple band-aids and i mean. get the word. 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. what are we

have to do is i'm given five dollars cable calls. we've been called to you know broken sprinkler system the lawn to a dog and the chimney you know stuck in a war and what there's all different types of calls are 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 that's not within you know they don't i won't because we truly need somebody to tell him what to do because this is their first emerged 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 has been about 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 to write at

the expense of the ripple effect of killing. 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 insurance company will look at that and say wow we're paramedics really warranted 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 here 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. we searched. for restaurants pay for some of the stuff. that will help you. now. he's

a diabetic or whatever it takes two days or whatever he has said no to instantly he never wants to. take off and let me have it. he says no we can't force him to talk to him and not then we can then yes but not here. i know . we need so anyway this is all it is that we need his permission to let my man extract me now that he's agreed to let. you know if he doesn't want to. he's agree were taken aback. ok then you're welcome. i know you do you want the best for him. and started searching teary. all that's right no he has no complaints he feels fine he answered all or pushed questions appropriately. please let me finish

it sugars one three it's within normal limits they were upset. 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 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 the patient i got a response going to the hospice it. mostly human spirit seeking 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 want to apply to have a city and you paramedics are experiencing the same thing i had

a guy from houston the last week paramedic burnout talk about his area. a guy from new york. paramedic paramedic burnouts nutrients are a great issue. in this field with the field but still there's a that 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. 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 gets triano just in the emergency room and based on her level of severity so good or bad.

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 checked right check out the vehicle and the passenger. there is no one in the room 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 to guard us 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 and soon 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 recipe for the perfect 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 oh

no i want you to take us in the ambulance because we'll be seen faster. in the e.r. . and that the emergency room wasn't be transported from one hospital to the other because you know years and i probably would present theories are you want to go to kaiser no. well you can do there. 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.

it up with water on. the metal detectors you're already in the hospital but on the moment. i'm trying to get an interpreter for you certainly movement will not get fixed by now one of the birds here clearly. and you know by the time of his people on the left that it was ok on the emergency room my wife is about is dying and then there's a don't want to help you out ok what do you. want to be on the side and somebody in 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 bombing blood they don't believe they're not gonna let him and 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 or pick a swipe up from optical catched already at. one hundred fifty one. with the merchant first a little bit on the ground. well. you know there. are. one. thing that i think that the florida courts are going to prevent. their lives than that of the other you're not you're at that awful man. i cannot for you for the quality of the hospital they're very likely to want to you from. the bottom to merge. it is not a matter of the opportunity ok well that's not a criminal thing. contract awfully by. the.

just lying i want you to use for your purposes only where. 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 mass 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 this thought out that sam is south. bend you go primanti actually you love in an ideal world frost need to open up those county clinics a day or so we have some place where individuals will walk into before they become in crisis the need actually nine one service it all comes down the phones are good 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 long and many we have right now be able to serve everybody in this community. and. let's. cut. cut

cut. cut it was a no no no no. president are going to. come together to look. at it. to get.

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the arab league is calling on the u.n. to create a joint peacekeeping force for syria is the group able to melt pressure on president assad. policing agrees to gas into crowds of protesters running outside the parliament which is set for a vote on more deep public sector cuts we get live analysis on the greek situation a little later here on the. iran promises to reveal major advances in its nuclear program which it insists is for peaceful energy purposes despite the long list of western sanctions imposed against it all top stories this hour.

with a look back at the past seven days and the latest developments this is the weekly on t.v. the arab league is calling on the u.n. security council to pass a resolution creating a joint peacekeeping force for syria the group also wants more international support for the opposition and hopes to paul further pressure on the regime. to reports now from cairo where the pan arab body has been meeting. the arab league is running out of options as a matter of fact they have at one point postponed their official statement and there are some rumors saying that the reason for that is because l's year and eleven have actually come out saying that they are against a u.n. peacekeeping mission that they do want syrians to sort things out all their own without any foreign intervention of course all of this is coming amongst the growing violence in the country which has been escalating by weeks i said chile of course that the president of syria bashar last.