Fourth Emergency Service

[daftandbarmy]

Speaking of Toronto

View this content on Instagram

View this content on Instagram

 

[CBH99]

Uh… If the perceived risk is assault to paramedics, then no, the appropriate partner service is going to be police, not, generally, a community based mental health provider.

When I was working as a medic for AHS, we had fights in the back of ambulances all the time

4.18 per 1000 calls sounds like a massive underreporting problem.

4.18 per 100 calls I would say seems exceptionally low - unless patients in Toronto are just exceptionally better behaved than patients in Edmonton...

 

[mariomike]

- unless patients in Toronto are just exceptionally better behaved than patients in Edmonton...

Probably not. May depend on where one was stationed.

I had the good fortune to be stationed in Chinatown.

I liked it there. Noisy, crowded streets with open front shops full of everything. Hanging red and gold signs I couldn't read, conversations I could not understand, and the unfamiliar music.

Just a streetcar ride from home, but it felt like far, far away.