Brian
Well-known member
So I'm about to be unemployed.
Come to find out last night from my shift officer and today from someone else, the hospital has basically been conspiring with County EMS to give them our hospital transport service and stop staffing their Critical Care Transport nurses because they're too expensive.
That means they won't need us to take their patients down south.
That means no medical billing.
Which means no money to pay our firemen.
..Which means I'm royally messed.
Our only option is a real long shot. First we would have to somehow start a grassroots movement among the people to try and somehow resist the county taking over the services; they're a tax entity, and tax dollars are not well spent if they're paying a (sub-par) ambulance crew AND Paramedic to leave the county for hours at a time. In other words, people should be pissed off about this.
Trouble is, people today are so ******* stupid it's unbelievable. They might grumble a bit, but ultimately they will look away and get messed in the mouth like they always do. I'll still be laid off, and tax dollars will still be wasted, and I'm sure someone will eventually die because these sons of bitches are 50 miles out of their response zone with a non-emergency patient transport that WE should be doing.
Then after that, we'd have to find some way to get this hospital some money to continue their Critical Care Transport program, otherwise we're still shorted on transports.
In other words, we're still messed because step one of that plan won't even work.
Why is this working out to be such a shitty month? It's like I'm stranded in an ocean of piss. And every now and then it rains, except it's not water. It's BLOOD. AIDS-infused blood, raining in to the piss ocean.
Bah.
Come to find out last night from my shift officer and today from someone else, the hospital has basically been conspiring with County EMS to give them our hospital transport service and stop staffing their Critical Care Transport nurses because they're too expensive.
That means they won't need us to take their patients down south.
That means no medical billing.
Which means no money to pay our firemen.
..Which means I'm royally messed.
Our only option is a real long shot. First we would have to somehow start a grassroots movement among the people to try and somehow resist the county taking over the services; they're a tax entity, and tax dollars are not well spent if they're paying a (sub-par) ambulance crew AND Paramedic to leave the county for hours at a time. In other words, people should be pissed off about this.
Trouble is, people today are so ******* stupid it's unbelievable. They might grumble a bit, but ultimately they will look away and get messed in the mouth like they always do. I'll still be laid off, and tax dollars will still be wasted, and I'm sure someone will eventually die because these sons of bitches are 50 miles out of their response zone with a non-emergency patient transport that WE should be doing.
Then after that, we'd have to find some way to get this hospital some money to continue their Critical Care Transport program, otherwise we're still shorted on transports.
In other words, we're still messed because step one of that plan won't even work.
Why is this working out to be such a shitty month? It's like I'm stranded in an ocean of piss. And every now and then it rains, except it's not water. It's BLOOD. AIDS-infused blood, raining in to the piss ocean.
Bah.
