Author: Unknown
Published on: 01/02/2025 | 00:00:00
AI Summary:
The UK ambulance service said 15% of its 426,000 calls last year — 175 a day — were not urgent. Some weren’t even health-related and were far from being matters of life and death. There was a call about a chipped tooth (“it’s starting to throb”) and a bloody toe. South Western Ambulance Service in England said more than a quarter of the one million-plus calls it fielded last year did not merit sending help. The non-emergency calls included a person looking for assistance in finding their walking stick, a patient who had fallen off a chair and a woman who complained of having a “horrendous nightmare”
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Maybe a better health service shouldn’t abandon people to diagnose the severity of their own illness.
Doctors: If you feel a lump or something doesn’t feel right, make an appointment straight away.
Also doctors: stop bothering us with your trivial nonsense. Ring us at 8am for an appointment that was taken at 7.59.