To Live And Die In NYC
On average, every hour  In NYC six people die. On average that is about 150 people a day. In 2010 (The last year data is available) for example 52,575 people died in
NYC. Diseases of Heart, Malignant Neoplasms, Influenza and Pneumonia, Chronic Lower Respiratory Diseases, Diabetes Mellitus, Cerebrovascular Diseases, Essential
Hypertension and Hypertensive Renal Disease, Accidents Except Poisoning by Psychoactive Substance, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Disease and Use of or
Poisoning by Psychoactive Substance are the most common causes.

The question is; don't these people deserve the best EMS system NYC can provide?

Is 0.11% of the budget the best we can do? Is 11 cents out of every 100.00 in tax money funding a high quality EMS system?

Lets put it this way. EMS gets 11 cents out of every $100.00 tax dollars NYC collects. The Department of Sanitation receives 2 dollars and 79 cents of the same $100.00.
That is over 25 times the money that EMS will get.

Funding wise people might have a better chance if Sanitation picked them up.
Well, at least we are not alone. Look at Detroit for example. That is another horror show. Here they are stuck in the field with an ambulance that will not start and gunshots
going off all around them. It's like a lawless, third world country right here in America. Just look at the video.

Detroit EMS

Not too far away is Philadelphia. The way they support their EMS workers you would think that they are taking leadership lessons from FDNY.

Philadelphia Efficiency Study

You don't have to stay in America to find dysfunction in the Public Safety field. We can alway take a look at Johannesburg South Africa. While we are different parts of the
globe, when you listen to the EMS workers in this documentary, everything that the EMS workers say hit home. It goes to show you that the problems and stress we face in
EMS are not bound by boarders.

Tell Me And I Will Forget
New Health Department Subway Poster Campaign Illustrates Dangers of Excessive Drinking And the Total Lack
Of Understanding Of What EMS Does.
The NYC Health Department released the latest installment of its “Excessive Drinking Is Dangerous” public education campaign with a print ad and subway posters in Spanish
and English. One of the two ads depicts a bloodied young man wearing a neck brace and being "lifted into an ambulance". The copy above his head reads, “Two drinks ago
this wasn't your ride.”

Once again the City of New York shows a lack of understanding about what EMS does. In using a print campaign that shows a private ambulance service "helping" someone
by putting a cervical collar improperly on the patient, with the chin rest folded inside the color, and improper immobilization  it once again shows NYC's lack of understanding
about what we do.
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Sad.
Sick 9/11 Responders Turned Away from Zadroga Hearing After
"Technical Snafu"

Once again sick 9/11 responders have to wait because a "Technical
Snafu" prevented people from calling in to testify. So everyone who
drove in to testify was sent home. We are still without Cancer
coverage. We are still sick and we are still dying. Maybe that is part
of the master plan. They hope we all just die off so they don't have
to worry about covering those of us who are sick. I think that would
be happy when we are all wearing toe tags.

Some gave all, some gave their health, the government gave us
endless bureaucracy. How many people must die because of
meetings, paperwork and delays?

Sick 9/11 Responders Turned Away