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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...
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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.
Sounds like a good posting
In Edmonton we were all over the city.
In theory, the city was broken down into districts. And each district was broken down into zones. And in theory, we were supposed to stay within our assigned zone.
In reality, our dispatch system (CADS) had us all over the bloody city. It was supposed to factor in the number of calls each unit had done in that shift, to spread the work out somewhat evenly when possible - but it rarely was the case
It wasn't unusual at all for crews working out of a station in the SW to be responding to calls in the NE, and vice versa, just based on who was available at the time.
And if you drift too close to downtown, you end up stuck there due to call volume & CADS just assigning whoever is closest.
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Your Chinatown sounds leaps & bounds better than ours.
Ours is the most dangerous part of the city - not because of the Chinese, but because Chinatown happens to be right next door to our homeless shelters.
I don't think our Chinatown is anything like your Chinatown even on a good summer day.
(All 4 of our shelters are kitty corner to each other. It more or less isolates most of the homeless people to that part of town, but calls for service are damn near constant)
