Frequently individuals with no medical illness at all are going to ask for help. And, like it or not, we will be called upon to help. Yet for that individual, at that time, there is a problem and they need some type of help. We are in an age when the big business mentality is infiltrating into the blood stream of modern medicine. Managed care organizations are targeting caring for predominantly healthy, young, employed Americans.
Some hospitals are only willing to care for their patients.
Many of the unemployed, uninsured, uneducated, or chronically ill are finding it difficult if not impossible to access medical care in today s health care environment. Emergency services are left filling this gap. I also recognized that it is, and in fact always has been, my job to do whatever I can for anyone who calls. I have the training and experience to be like Johnny and Roy and do whatever it takes to save a life. But if the day goes by and I spend it helping people with less emergent problems, it s still a good thing I was there.