I am talking from my own personal experience now. I have unfortunately needed hospitalisation at least eight times in the last four months, of which five were in intensive care.
All were for breathing difficulties.
The ambulance arrives and try to stabilise my breathing long enough to get me safely to hospital…..
And here is the rub. They want to take me to the closest hospital which makes sense until you find out that the closest hospital to you is a community hospital less than half a mile away, and has the barest of facilities and a skeleton staff made up of doctors whom in the words of one of them – doesn’t want to deal with difficult cases. (more…)

