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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]911 most definitly. You get to skip the line when you come in an ambulance. If you are near a busy hospital like Fairfax, you can sit in the waiting room for 8 hours with a broken leg.[/quote]

See, I wouldn't call 911 for a broken leg.   Unless I had no way of getting to treatment on my own (no one to give me a ride) -- I'd expect to get to have to get myself or my family member to the hospital with broken bones.

Suspected broken neck or back -- I'd call 911.

Gunshot wound?  I keep thinking of that Beltway Sniper victim -- the kid who was shot outside of his school.   I think it was his aunt with him, and she picked him up and drove him ASAP to the hospital and that very likely saved his life versus waiting for the ambulance to get there.   (But they were close)  [/quote]

I know someone whose child fell off the monkey bars, and when they moved her the jagged edge of her broken bone slit her femoral artery.  She almost bled to death.

So, no way I'm moving my kid with a broken bone.[/quote]

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