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I got myself a minimal second phone yesterday. 10 dollars for 4 months with ~160 minutes. This second phone will always be on loud if anyone actually needs to get a hold of me. Otherwise my phone (as I like to say, "butt computer") will always be on silent. I check it roughly 3 times a day for responses. All other times I pick up my phone it must be with intention. I record myself whenever I pick up the phone without…
> No. Nothing is an urgency. Until someone you love is in the hospital. Or almost any emergency, really. Then you want to be reachable no matter the time.
Even in an emergency you're virtually never the critical chain in the response. First responders are. Bystanders are. The staff at the hospital are. There can be cases in which it's helpful to advocate for someone (unfortunately in countries with private-payor adversarial healthcare systems this does approach a necessity at times), or to comfort. But that's a role that's very rarely time-critical. Source: trained and…
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Even in an emergency you're virtually never the critical chain in the response. First responders are. Bystanders are. The staff at the hospital are. There can be cases in which it's helpful to advocate for someone (unfortunately in countries with private-payor adversarial healthcare systems this does approach a necessity at times), or to comfort. But that's a role that's very rarely time-critical. Source: trained and…
Who said it was about providing medical assistance of any kind?
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Who said it was about providing medical assistance of any kind?
What services are you proposing receiving at a hospital?
I was her emergency contact, and my presence there meant the world to both her and her sister.