Don't use emergency resources unless it's a REAL

[kadee79]

Emergency!  Using them when not necessary can cause someone else to die....

Aparent on TikTok has gone viral after their 1-year-old son's finger was bitten by a goat at a pumpkin patch. In a series of videos, the child was shown being rolled on a stretcher into an ambulance.

One video, posted by @trippydayyz, has amassed more than 28.7 million views and 47,000 comments since it was published on October 8.

In the viral clip, a young boy stands next to a goat enclosure and begins crying after the goat bites his finger. The video then cuts to the child's swollen and bruised finger and shows him being wheeled on a stretcher into an ambulance.

Many people in the comments of the original video criticized the parents for calling an ambulance when they could have driven the child. Some commented about the fact that there is a nationwide EMS shortage.

"We're facing a nationwide shortage of ambulance crews and people like you are taking up resources for things that should've been handled at an urgent care," one user wrote. "There are people that are DYING, waiting for an ambulance because someone called for toe pain."

According to public information officer for Wake County EMS Brian Brooks, there is a nationwide EMS worker shortage as well as record patients in emergency rooms. Brooks told Newsweek that emergency room overflows are also causing ambulance shortages since ambulances must wait at the ER bay until a bed becomes available.

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[Opti]

That is very weird they did not just drive him. I bet they will be surprised on the cost of the ambulance.

[Value Buy]

Now we are ambulance shamers?
What will the ambulance chasers do to earn their living? 

[daisylu]

The article is a little confusing. Were there "parents" or "parent" there? The article keeps saying "parent", and the commenters are saying "parents". I imagine there are people out there who can not handle these situations well - trying to wrangle a traumatized 4YO into a car seat in the back, screaming the entire way down the road could have caused some people to react in way that could have caused even more emergencies. 

I have no issue with suggesting that were other ways to handle the situation, but a lot of people on the internet take things too far when they do not have the whole picture.

[NoNamePerson]

Maybe the pumpkin patch people/owner wanted emergency there for liability purposes! The parent/parents will be slammed no matter what they did! Everybody else is so fucking perfect under all circumstances! 

[wvugurl26]

My sister in law does not handle these type of things with her kids at all. When her son got a cut requiring stitches, she called my DH screaming in a panic. He had to go to her house and handle it. Some people just can't handle it.

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

It mentions in the article they did not take their kid to the ER the day he was bit.  They took him after the finger became infected.  The Tik Tok videos are heavily edited to make a point.


In "part 2" of the video, the parent said the baby's finger became infected which is why they brought him to the hospital. Footage showed the child in a hospital bed with an IV in his arm. The parent said the child was recovering from the infection.

"We didn't take him right away," the child's parent wrote in the comments of the video. "We didn't know it was going to get infected till we got home it started swelling and discharging."


Tik Tok embellishing the truth to get a reaction?  Shocking I tell you shocking!


And I am sorry but given what I know of zoonotic diseases I would not just hop over to the pediatric office and hope they know what's going on with my kid's finger.  It's one of the few times I'd be safe rather than sorry.  I'd rather look like I'm wasting health care dollars than chance losing my kids' finger or worse.  Would I call an ambulance?  No but then I live less than 10 minutes away from two hospitals and 15 minutes away from two more so we can easily drive.   I'm not going to fault the parents for a moment of panic though.

[NoNamePerson]

Nov 2, 2021 7:53:50 GMT -5 NomoreDramaQ1015 said:

It mentions in the article they did not take their kid to the ER the day he was bit.  They took him after the finger became infected.  The Tik Tok videos are heavily edited to make a point.


In "part 2" of the video, the parent said the baby's finger became infected which is why they brought him to the hospital. Footage showed the child in a hospital bed with an IV in his arm. The parent said the child was recovering from the infection.

"We didn't take him right away," the child's parent wrote in the comments of the video. "We didn't know it was going to get infected till we got home it started swelling and discharging."


Tik Tok embellishing the truth to get a reaction?  Shocking I tell you shocking!


And I am sorry but given what I know of zoonotic diseases I would not just hop over to the pediatric office and hope they know what's going on with my kid's finger.  It's one of the few times I'd be safe rather than sorry.  I'd rather look like I'm wasting health care dollars than chance losing my kids' finger or worse.  Would I call an ambulance?  No but then I live less than 10 minutes away from two hospitals and 15 minutes away from two more so we can easily drive.   I'm not going to fault the parents for a moment of panic though.

Tik Tok embellishing.    Surely you jest.    they would never do that.