How To Draw An Ambulance has been added as a related post - related requested by chicchorea on that post.

If a women is screaming like this, I'm pretty sure they will send an ambulance.
Also, considering how money-grabbing US medical system is, they'd be all too happy to admit her, if not to charge more money, to cover their asses from a lawsuit that they didn't do all that's necessary.

Ambulance personnel is probably a bit more trained and better equipped to handle a "roadside delivery" than a guy hearing gopro on his head.

I don't know what it's like in the states but here in the UK they make a big thing of not getting to the hospital too early. Labour usually takes a long time and being in labour isn't enough to be admitted to hospital. If you phoned 999 here and told them your wife was in labour they'd tell you to wait until the contractions were close and regular and then make your way to the hospital. You'd only get an ambulance if there was something wrong (lots of blood or something like that). Having a baby is not a medical emergency.

When my wife went into labour her contractions were almost immediately close and regular. When we phone the hospital they were dismissive at first but said we could come in if we wanted. They'd have a look and see how dilated she was but if she wasn't dilated enough we'd be sent home, so it was our choice. As it happened when we got there she was already 3cm dilated and was taken straight through to a delivery room. Start to finish labour for her was about 8hrs. But a friend of ours had a 36hour labour.

It's very hard to tell which it's going to be so they don't send ambulances out for every baby

More from Photography is not a crime:
First, Andrea Mears called police on a man for flying his remote control quadcopter over a public beach in Connecticut.

Then, when police didn’t respond in seconds, she attacked the man

“He’s taking pictures of people on the beach … with a helicopter plane,” she told the cops by phone.

“Can you guys hurry? I already talked to him, just come.”

Seconds later, she attacked him.

The man, who goes by Hogwit on Youtube, began recording the encounter on his iPhone as his quadcopter was flying overhead, capturing her clawing at his face and pulling at his shirt.

“You want to take pictures?” she asks him as she jams her fingers into his mouth. “Yeah, you’re going to see how it feels when police come.”

Then she has the audacity to tell him “let go of me” as she is all over him.

“If you wouldn’t be assaulting me, I wouldn’t be touching you,” he responds, remaining exceptionally calm considering the circumstances.

“He’s taking pictures of people on the beach!” she yells as she continues to rip his shirt. “I’m going to kick your ass, you little motherfucker.”

“Can someone call the cops!” the man yells. “I’m being assaulted! Help!”

Police arrived and arrested her for assault in the third degree and breach of peace. The incident took place May 12 at Hammonassett State Park in Madison.



Here are more details from the man who was flying the drone that he posted on a forum shortly after the incident:

I went to a nearby beach that is a whopping 2 miles long, set up, talked to some people that were curious what my “thing” was, demonstrated the loiter feature (pulling the quad to one direction or another), demonstrated rtl (flying it away then having it return), and make a lot of people think the quad was just awesome. I never went below 50 feet save for take off/landing, then after the end of my last flight, some crazy lady came over and started taking pictures of me…and dialed 911 for the 3rd time in 15 minutes…she said something to the effect of, “There’s a guy here taking pictures at the beach with a helicopter plane.” (I distinctly remember her saying, “with a helicopter plane,” because that just sounds hilarious.) They basically said that they’d send someone when one gets free during each of the 3 calls she made, she decided they didn’t care enough about someone obeying the law so when no one was around she assaulted me and she decided to stop when she got a phone call. I called the police to report the assault, and boy was the response big…10 or more vehicles arrived (cops, DEEP, and an ambulance)…They first listened to her story of lies (she claimed I was taking close ups of people in bikinis, and that she had asked me to stop flying before calling the police, and that I was the one that assaulted her, and and and). The police approached me very aggressively, believing her full story, and before anything else was said I brought up something that she missed… The fact that the cell phone in my hand has a camera…that was recording. I had video evidence that she went nuts completely unprovoked, and was the one that assaulted me. She was then charged with assault, and breach of peace and I gave the cops a copy of the video for their prosecution. I then also showed them my last flight where you can make out her colorful shirt getting up from the beach then following it until it lands which proved that she lied when claiming that she asked me to stop flying before calling the police.
At the end of it all, one of the officers said to me basically, “Flying that thing the way you were is fine, you’re not in any trouble. You can come back and fly, but just be aware that some people can be alarmed.”


*fail, *lies, *wtf

Who are you? Anyways my problem is good people all over the place get killed, often in horrible ways. You wanna improve you or your families lives in the wrong area of the world, you get two to the back of the head in an alley. Live in the wrong neighborhood, driveby, you die in the street waiting 20 minutes for the ambulance. Black and resisting arrest, you get shot in the back and cuffed while the cop that flees to another state gets dragged back and doesn't serve time.

So all this horrible shit happens to good people in the world. Why can't something horrible happen to this guy? My comment was a bit tongue and cheek and sometimes I just like to shout. Honestly though I would LOVE to see one day someone with a fucked up opinion in America get killed in the most brutal way imaginable. Someone who isn't black and doesn't think it's right for the state to treat them like second class citizens. Someone who has had every advantage in life and is pissed off for no appreciable reason at all.

Everyone get's to complain, some get killed. I'd like to see just one, JUST FUCKING ONE guy who's shitty opinion everyone doesn't like get it fucking good.

Agreed except on point 4 - any competent ER will still triage you after coming in via ambulance. Granted, the majority of the time the ambulance will bring in someone in dire straits so it'll make sense that they'll get seen immediately, but if a Frequent Flier arrives via ambulance and is not in imminent trouble, the likelihood that they'll wait increases.

As for Quebec's problems, those have been well documented by others, well done.

Most of the governments have done a pretty good job in the past couple decades improving wait times across Canada - always can be better, but the good Doctor's point on reallocating resources more efficiently is well stated!

Canadian from Manitoba checking in here. Things like crutches, prescription medications, and ambulances are out of pocket expenses. Got something like diabetes? Expect to be spending a lot of money every month on drugs.

For life threatening emergencies or even broken bones and stitches our system works great for people, and no worries about going broke, you just go in anyways. Our federal and provincial taxation levels though are also much higher than in the US and a large percentage of that is spent directly on health care. I don't know what level of health insurance that amount would buy each Canadian, but it is important to remember that the Canadian healthcare system is NOT free.

I must say I do prefer the Canadian system to the American one. Largely on the basis of not seeing working class families being financially destroyed by life threatening and uninsured medical conditions.

I can't just say that though without pointing out that our Canadian system has it's own serious flaws. I know of people with back injuries putting them off work until they can get surgery, and that surgery being a waiting time for them measured in years. They flew down to the states to spend thousands of dollars out of pocket to get the surgery in weeks instead, and were financially ahead too over those two years since they could get back to work. Patients showing symptoms that might indicate major heart conditions or other illnesses who would get an immediate MRI or other expensive diagnostic in the states straight away will routinely wait months in Canada.

That is all just a long winded way to say the Canadian system is far from perfect and has very serious problems and flaws in it that are negatively impacting peoples health and financial well being too. It's no magic bullet.

2 week hospital stay nurses checking in every half hour, even while we slept.

liquid food for 8 days through an IV, nurse told me it was 750 per bag/24 H

Specialists attending..

Four CAT scans maybe six. depending on how you want to group the time frame.

um...

ambulance ride covered by the province.

they took blood work twice a day.. I mean people were all up in my shit, LITERALLY ! oh a colonoscopy, and dietician.

SO those two weeks cost Alberta/Canada a lot of money. How much would that cost a person who is poor as fuck with a pre existing condition ?

I really wonder because if it was more than 500 dollars I would be in debt pretty decent if it was not for the health care system Canada has.

This elective stuff.. when I was getting scanned for tumors in my head or abnormalities again a CAT scan, I had to wait for a month, and it was not life threatening stuff, the EEG I waited 2 weeks for. again not life threatening.

My experience has been very well, although sometimes it has pissed me off. If I had this shit happen to me in America I think a bullet that costs .05 cents would be a better option that a life of 12 thousand a year debt for.. ever.

I did not like that one person, senators a -ok, doctor a-ok.. name plate hidden jack ass- not so much.

Oh and my pills costs roughly 90-120 dollars a month, I actually don't know because I have never paid for them.

GO CANADA!
GO ALBERTA !
being poor sucks though. been sick for a year.

Yes, we get triage in the wait room in emerge. and it can be slow. but you do get served.

We have four options in Canada.
1). Have a regular GP (General Practitioner), and book regular appointments
2). Go to a drop in clinic. (still uses our medical plan, have never had to pay, and always got served in a timely matter)
3). Go directly to emergency - IF it's an emergency (some people use this service when it is not an emergency, which backs up the system)
4). Call an ambulance - (A person escorted into Emerg, bypasses the triage line and gets service priority. Don't abuse this system)

Yes, every member of my family has spent time in the hospital at one point or another. We've never been charged for anything. not for the service, the supplies, the overnights. or what ever,

No one has died, though two members of my family could have without immediate emergency surgery.

I have no real complaints over the Canadian Medical System, other than the wait times on elective surgeries. Waiting for these surgeries are inconvenient but if it's important enough, your GP will push to get you in sooner if needed. so talk to your GP about it, don't complain to your friends.

Also, I personally don't know anyone who pays money to go to the US for Medical procedures. I'd really like to see the statistics on those numbers and who these people are. Because it's not the general public.

Yah, but for rescue work (ambulance) 30 mph with the patient already onboard in the water is a lot better than 5 mph, right?

Wow! I could never get down a slope like that without an ambulance or air lift. I had to look up the impressive fellow with the skills to make it down in one piece and film.

"Graham Bell and his brother Martin competed for Britain throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Graham took a Silver Medal at the World Junior Ski Championships in 1984 and represented Great Britain at five Winter Olympics in Sarajevo 1984, Calgary 1988, Albertville 1992, Lillehammer 1994 and Nagano 1998." /sauce

Also, how could anyone call anti-tank weapons one of the "worst"?

I mean those guys in the tank are there to kill people. They're not doctors. It's not an armored ambulance, or some mobile shelter for war orphans. The tank is a fearsome weapon designed to kill. HEAT rounds just give the foot soldiers a little bit of a fighting chance against them.

I remember reading a long time ago about just how hot the coffee was and why they kept it that hot So I knew for a long time that it wasn't a case of some unscrupulous woman looking for a quick buck along with some ambulance chaser lawyers.

So even though it was *not* a frivolous lawsuit, even the reduced amount of money she actually got seems excessive. I wish we lived in a world where simply paying the medical bills and maybe a little bit extra for the trouble for recompense was adequate

But then when think about it in the context of a big corporation. How do you induce a large company to change? unless you hit them where it hurts, the pocket book. You have to admit that McDonalds initial offer of a few hundred bucks was essentially them flipping the bird to her. Had they just paid the medical bills and a little bit extra and lowered the temp of the coffee, This would never have entered the public sphere.

Maybe if we lived in a world where people weren't so obsessed about profits and the bottom line, we wouldn't have a situation like this.

I just love that when a normal person needs help and calls for an ambulance, they receive a $1500 bill afterwards. This idiot makes horrible choices and gets service at no cost. The system is truly screwed.

we have something similar in Portugal. In a really bad case, a fast car, is sent ahead with a doctor and a nurse to the scene of the accident, with the ambulance going soon after as soon as possible. This way the patient can be stabilized before being transported to the hospital.