Three Hour Breakfast: Archive

Just doing his job

DISPATCHER: What's your emergency?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: There's a lady on the ground here in the emergency room, and they are ignoring her, claiming that she's already been discharged. She's definitely sick [vomiting up blood] but everybody's ignoring her.
DISPATCHER: What do you want me to do for you, ma'am?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Send an ambulance out here to take her somewhere where she can get medical help.
DISPATCHER: OK, you‘re at the hospital ma‘am. You have to contact them.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They‘re the problem. They won‘t help her.
DISPATCHER: They‘re the medical professionals. OK? You‘re already at a hospital. 911 is used for emergency purposes only.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You can still send an ambulance if that's my request.
DISPATCHER: Well, I can contact the fire department for you. You can talk it over with them. I have a feeling they're not going to do it for you, ma'am. You're already at the hospital.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I know where I am.
DISPATCHER: If you're not pleased with the results you're getting from the--
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's another patient. I'm not pleased with the results I'm getting from them, but it's another patient who's sicker, and she's down, all down on the ground--
DISPATCHER: Well, I can't do anything about the quality of the hospital. This line is for emergency purposes only. 911 is for emergencies.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is an emergency, mister.
DISPATCHER: It is not an emergency. It is not an emergency ma‘am.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You're not here now to see how they're treating her.
DISPATCHER: Well, that's not a criminal thin. We handle--
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Excuse me, if this woman falls down and dies, what do you mean that ain't a criminal thing?
DISPATCHER: If you have a problem with the quality of the hospital, you have to contact the hospital supervisors, okay? Let them know. The police have nothing to do with that, ma'am. This line--911-- is used for emergency purposes only.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is an emergency!
DISPATCHER: It is not! If you want to call us back at our business line, I'll give you our number.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Can I still have a paramedic unit come here and get her?
DISPATCHER: Like I said, if you got a pen, I'll give you our business line.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No, I don't want another number.
DISPATCHER: Okay.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: May God strike you too for acting the way you just acted.
DISPATCHER: Negative ma‘am. You‘re the one who's wrong.
The woman lay on the floor for forty-five minutes and died.

2008

Jun

Three Hour Breakfast is completed

Remarks to the Community in Holland,...

Remarks in Pontiac, Michigan

Remarks in Royal Oak, Michigan

Remarks in Sterling Heights, Michigan

Itsukakan

Heading back to Boston by

May

Not For Identification

Just doing his job

Burma

Apr

Burma scoop! Memo memo!

Review: King Corn

Overheard in Northfield Central Park

I guess an explanation is warranted

blog on hold

Mar

Gone to Waterloo, Iowa.