Why You Shouldn’t Be Happy to Hear “We are on our way to the hospital now.”
It happens all the time in Japan! It's scary.
It happens because, apparently,the emergency-room system is different from
the USA.
There seem to be only designated Emergency hospitals.
So the ambulance drivers (who may or may not be trained paramedics - it's case by case) have to literally call hospitals as they drive, to find a hospital that is not too busy.
The results -
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Man dies after 5 hospitals refuse him
01/05/2008
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Japanese Woman Dies After 30 Hospitals Refuse Care
Friday, December 28, 2007
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Miscarriage prompts Japan pledge
Thursday, 30 August 2007, 10:49 GMT 11:49 UK
"woman in labour was turned away by eight hospitals"
BBC News, Tokyo
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Comatose woman in labor rejected by 18 hospitals dies
Thursday, Oct. 19, 2006
Next time you have an accident in Japan, be sure it's near a hospital that will let you in, eh?
What a timely post…I have been reading these articles too and am about to embark on a second period of living in Japan. I was just telling my DH that I’m not so sure a medical emergency in Japan would be too good for our health….great job pulling theses articles together into a post!
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