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Ten Ways to Increase Flights

Bjorn, Pret pbjorn at emh.org
Tue Oct 14 18:57:06 BST 2008


Since I don't seem to have made a blistering mistake all day, I'll bite:


Me, I'm not feeling the "disgust."

Be fair.  This information has been bluntly amputated from its proper
context and thrust into ours.  Drill up to the home page, and with a
modest objective effort you might notice the conspicuous assertion: "Our
focus is to enable our customers to safely generate sustainable,
medically necessary and appropriate flight requests." 

How is their Top Ten list in any way exclusive of safe or appropriate
operations?  Indeed: wouldn't mastery of items #1 and #2 be PRECISELY
what you'd want from an air medical program?  Isn't it possible that
these guys are actually interested in improving air medical services --
maybe even via the merciless defeat of sketchy outfits who cut corners
and take risks with processes, patients and providers?  Has anyone made
any effort to ask their opinion, or inform them that we collectively,
reflexively, and empirically hate their guts?

Or did I miss the part where you decided that trying to help was
enlisting with the Forces of Darkness? 

When did this discussion become a political campaign?  And how did a
pinko lib like me end up defending aggressive market forces from
suffocating legislation?

Pret


PS: It may have already been mentioned (I've only had time to skim this
thread), but the state of Maryland is convening an expert panel.  I look
forward to hearing their conclusions after reviewing one of the oldest
and busiest HEMS systems in the US.



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