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Mon Nov 24 21:46:35 GMT 2008

Yes, by some estimates up to 70% of the helicopter transport patients have  
trivial to no medical conditions and are dismissed in just a few hours after  
arrival at the hospital.    Even those programs with hospital  associated 
helicopter programs complain about this group of patients who could  have gone just 
as expeditiously to a doc in the box locally and been treated for  their 
minor condition.     IT IS THINGS LIKE THIS THAT THE  MARYLAND AND OTHER PANELS 
NEED TO ADDRESS, BUT are reticent to discuss, for if  the helicopters only flew 
for the indexable bad cases, the number of flights  would be too few, so that 
they would not make enough money to stay in  flight.  

k mattox

In a message dated 11/24/2008 2:34:40 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
sahajs at gmail.com writes:

Are they  truly dispatching helos for pt's with NO APPARENT INJURIES?!?!  As  
someone who works in EMS and trains providers, I find that stunning. I also  
think that if the system is that flawed (my opinion) they need to look at all  
aspects of it, starting with their education, and not make nationwide  
judgements based on that system.  

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