Having re-read what I wrote last night, I may of sounded as though your bro's injury didn't justify a ambulance, but given the severity of it, he certainly did.
It's just I've seen it all to often when people have called an ambulance for something relatively minor, where the injured could quite easily walk of the hill and get to hospital themselves or via mates, and it really p***s me of.
I've even heard of them complaining because the ambulance won't take the bikes!
No worries... I wasnt sure if thats what you were thinking, and its a fair point in lots of situations.
i think ur knee could easily have justified an ambulance tho, working as a ski instructor at a dry ski slope we are finding ourselves having to call ambulances when people are able to get to hospitals just to cover ourselves insurance wise and to take every precaution that we can,
also a lot of car insurances dont cover people that are already injured when they get into a car, so if things do get worse such as someone goes into shock then it can be blamed on the drivers, the only drivers that are insured are paramedics and black cab drivers, who all carry defribillators aswell
Thats a good point...I didnt know that... Bearing in mind how difficult it was getting Jason into my car to take him from Aberystwyth to Addenbrookes
after they'd put a cast on it, Im not sure he'd have let me drive to hospital, even if we'd been anywhere near the car!!!
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