Ambulances
Audio: Damar Hamlin Emergency Response Captured on Recordings
The radio traffic moments after Buffalo Bills defensive back Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field Monday night in Cincinnati crackled with urgency. “I don’t like how he went down,” one person said on a channel that appears to have included medical personnel on the sidelines. Seconds later, as the gravity of Hamlin’s condition became clearer, […]
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911 Dispatcher Faces Manslaughter Charge After Failing to Send Ambulance
A 911 dispatcher has been charged with involuntary manslaughter after he failed to send an ambulance to a woman in rural Pennsylvania who was bleeding and incoherent and who died a day later, the authorities said. The dispatcher, Leon Price, 50, of Waynesburg, had indicated on a 911 call with the woman’s daughter, Kelly D. […]
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A New Ban on Surprise Medical Bills Starts This Week
Several studies found that around 20 percent of U.S. patients who had emergency care were treated by someone outside of their insurance network, including emergency room doctors, radiologists or laboratories. Any of those providers could send patients an extra bill after the fact, and some medical groups did so routinely. Such bills are now illegal. […]
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