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[OhNo-Really]

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[shanti]

1. One can always

use Uber or Lyft. I did this once. I wasn't dying, but couldn't drive myself and had no one to take me at the time. This was after the first time I DID call the ambulance. I have Kaiser, and the ride was $3000, but cost me nothing. This was after about 6 months of wrangling with the Fire Dept. and Kaiser, though. Every procedure that they do in transit costs you, in addition to the mileage.

[OhNo-Really]

2. No joke, nine people entered our home when I called an ambulance for my mom

She had simply passed out. I had "that feeling" at work, called my daighter to go check her grandma and she found my mom unconscious on the floor.

It took me 15 minutesmto get home. The 9 person crew was still dinking around.

She had Tricare for Life so no cost.

The bill, however, was for more than $1,000 to drive 4 miles. I should have taken her. We never ever call an ambulance

[phylny]

3. Here is my (not ambulance, but medical transport) story.

The day I had my lumpectomy, they needed to place what I can only describe as pins in my breast to identify the area in an office visit. I suppose I was numbed, don't remember, and then the pins were taped down and then I had to go to the hospital. I wanted my husband to simply drive me there, but they refused. "Doctor D_____ requires all her patients to be transported via ambulance."

Okay, so I'm in the ambulance for the four-minute ride from the office to the hospital. The technician inside apologized. "I have to take your blood pressure twice. Rules."

I wondered aloud why on earth my husband, who had driven me to the office, couldn't have driven me to the hospital and dropped me off at admitting.

"Oh, Dr. D_____'s husband owns the transport company."

Oh.