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Chicago’s Mount Sinai Hospital temporarily stopped accepting patients Sunday morning because they were at capacity following a series of shootings, a hospital official said.
The hospital went “on bypass” in the early morning, said Roberta Rakove, Senior VP for External Affairs.
Hospitals use the term “on bypass” when they stop accepting ambulance runs and those ambulances are diverted to other trauma centers. Mount Sinai Hospital is one of five trauma centers in Chicago, according to Rakove.
At its height early Sunday morning, Mount Sinai had 12 trauma patients, Rakove said. She could not provide information on their conditions.
Here was the weekend shooting update from the local CBS affiliate, this being a regular thing: more
RACISTS!
…not saying Chicongo doesn’t have HUGE problems, but there’s nothing sinister about ANY hospital going on diversion from time to time. They can do it during flu season too, and sometimes they can simply have manpower or physical reasons why they can’t accept patients.
My squad didn’t get diverted a lot, but it wasn’t unknown, and also wasn’t a big deal as long as there was another hospital with adequate facilities we could go to. They’d generally tell you as soon as you went enroute, so you didn’t waste time driving to one, then another.
The whole point of an ambulance is prehospital stabilizing care, and if you’re not prepared and equipped to deal with a few more minutes of patient care, you’re probably in the wrong business.
…also, I’m not personally in the game now, but I know folks who are, and they say diversions got worse EVERYWHERE after Obamacare kicked in, since lots of docs retired, experienced nurses went for less understaffed specialties, and hospitals started cheaping on facilites and support staff. It’s always been there, but like everything else, Socialism DEFINITELY made it WORSE…
My cousin did his residency at a public Chicago hospital, late 80s. While a lot of surgical residents at university hospitals were mostly observing the professors and experienced doctors do the surgeries, or assist the lead doctor, he had surgeries every day thanks to short staffing and gang warfare. It sure prepared him – he has had a very rewarding career as a neurosurgeon. So thank you Chicago.
If they quit being so effective at saving gang members, this will sort itself out.
It’s simple. Just don’t try so hard.
Micheal Obama got paid a lot of money to divert the wrong type of patients away from his hospital!
Just curious: I wonder who is paying the bills for all those gunshot victims?
Gunshot wounds can cost a lot to treat them, and require medical care for extended periods, from what I understand.
Cliche Guevara
AUGUST 6, 2019 AT 10:31 AM
“If they quit being so effective at saving gang members, this will sort itself out.”
…you know, I felt that way more than once while I was out in the Little Red Truck and we had some douchebag bleeding out from the consequences of his own evil, but a couple of things made me do my best anyway.
One is that most of us came to EMS with a strong sense of duty. That sense of duty is reinforced through training and you do also take an oath, but it’s there in the first place. We have a duty to ourselves, our City, our County, our State, our Nation, and our Lord to not accept a lifesaving job if we aren’t willing to DO it.
Two, I am NOT the judge and jury. I know, at best, a VERY small slice of this person’s life, and what I THINK I know, may be WRONG. Emergencies can be chaotically confusing, and you don’t really have either time or ability to gather and verify information on whether a person is “good” or “bad”, nor is it your job to do so. It’s all you can do to save them just in case LEO or the next door neighbor was wrong or even lying, and someone’s dad, mom, son, or daughter dies as a result.
Three, if you don’t do your job, YOU go to jail, and YOU expose your family to bankruptcy from lawsuits and attacks by his family when you’re not there to protect him. Provable dereliction of duty is only forgiven among high-level politicians and big-city Police Chiefs, the REST of us will get the CHAIR, and our families WITH us.
Fourth, and MOST important, God won’t let us. Whatever YOU may have heard or believe about a person, YOU do NOT have permission from HIM to take their life, by action or INaction. God can still reach them, still save them, even the WORST, while they yet live. He wants as many of His children as possible to come back to Him, and it’s not for US to decide to terminate their opportunity to do so. And without God’s knowledge of a person, you don’t know how He intends to USE them. Other people are HIS, and absent a direct threat to you and yours, are NOT for YOU to take.
…so,tempting as it may be in that position, those dedicated to saving lives can’t and shouldn’t flip the script and TAKE them, for these and other reasons. We can’t address sin with sin, or fix murder by becoming murderers.
That is NOT our part.
…JRR Tolkien put it well in the “Ring” trilogy, thus…
“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
-JRR Tolkien, “The Lord of the Rings. The Fellowship of the Ring.”
Healers can’t kill. That only aids the Devil…
So anyone else needed medical attention for other than gunshot wounds is just SOL, huh?
Working in a Chicago ER must be like working in a war zone.
SNS: That was a very thoughtful response to my attempt at gallows humor.
I know all emergency personnel have a responsibility and if the biggest piece of crap is lying in front of them that their job is to keep him alive so he can be freshly coiled on people’s lawns for years to come.
Alternately, then the person who shot him only get Attempted Murder thanks to their efficacy. The EMT’s success reward’s the atempted murderer’s failure.
You’re a better man than I, Gunga Din.
identify the gang members and send them to the taxidermist.
problem solved.
https://www.google.com/search?q=taxidermy+in+chicago
this one looks good.
Arctic Circle Taxidermy & Prop Design
they’re all over the place
https://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=Taxidermy&find_loc=Chicago%2C+IL
If Sh!tcago burnt to the ground I wouldn’t care! We should be Air Dropping Weapons and Ammunition into the city.. in 5 year Chicago would be one of the safest cities in America!