"The Street Saint: Emergency At the Emergency Services" by Chuck Purdy
Аlgоrа Publishing | 2002 | ISBN: 1892941805, 1892941813 | 237 pages | PDF | 2 MB
A veteran paramedic decries the declining standards within the commercial ambulance corps and hospital emergency rooms. In a dramatic semi-autobiographical volume he points out several factors driving the decline (abuse and overwhelming of the system by Medicare/Medicaid patients and other non-emergency patients; and the way fiscal requirements distort how the services are run