Not gonna go there about volunteers but...

[ghurty]

Am I reading this correctly? It is possible for a pt. to wait 28 min before medics are allowed to transport?

Remind me never to visit NJ if this is true. :shock:

I am sorry if I gave that impression. If it is a "load and go", and there aren't any of the vollys there, then dispatch is going to go ahead and allow them to go.

[Dustdevil]

I am sorry if I gave that impression. If it is a "load and go", and there aren't any of the vollys there, then dispatch is going to go ahead and allow them to go.

Scrat did a great job of touching on most of the points that are relevant to this case, but here is one more piece of rotting wood to throw on the fire.

Police dispatchers making care and transportation decisions from behind a desk? WTF??

Yeah... NJ is rotten to the core. And not just EMS. This is truly farked. :?

The really sad thing is that it appears that a great many providers in NJ don't even realised how farked their system is. They just accept that whatever is, is, always has been, and always will be, so it must be good. The only people NJ is good for is wankers, because the system is structured to assure enough "tiers" that anybody who wants a piece of the EMS action can easily do so with hardly little or no educational or training commitment whatsoever.

Significantly more farked than Kalifornia. And that is saying something.