A panicked ambulance crew had a critically ill patient, but the man weighed more than 1,000 pounds and could not fit in the vehicle and the stretcher was not steady enough to hold him. The Kansas Board of Emergency Medical Services used a forklift to load the man - bed and all - onto a flatbed truck!! There was no other choice.
"I'm sure it was terribly embarrassing to be in his own bed, riding on the back of a flatbed truck with straps tying him down, going to the hospital, and then have a forklift at the hospital unload him," Keller said. It still bothers him who is now and operations manager for the American Medical Response unit in Topeka.
Now there are extra fees for hugely obese patients to get transported in ambulances.
Proponents of the extra fees say obese patients are grateful for equipment that eliminates the need for flatbed trucks and forklifts.
Gee I wonder why..................................................?
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