Don't take the ambulance, just walk.

ahh, so I was just reading about Ontario's ambulance shite (which I'm sure is very similar in each province), and this is what you need to not have to pay:

Your ambulance transportation costs are fully covered :

  • if you are a resident of Ontario, and :
  • you have a valid Ontario health card, and
  • a physician deems your ambulance service medically necessary,

    and
  • your ambulance trip originates at an Ontario hospital or health care

    facility, and
  • your destination is a hospital or health care facility outside the

    province but within Canada, and
  • treatment is not available anywhere in Ontario.

SO: if it is the same in BC, first off you're from Ontario not BC, and second your injury is not an injury that is medically necessary to have an ambulance. that's why you'd have to pay. In Ontario anyways if you do not have an injury necessary of an ambulance then it's a minimum cost of $240.

So I think the big thing is that a separated shoulder is not a serious injury in which an ambulance is necessary. If you had a broken femur or were bleeding profusely then you wouldn't have had to pay.
 
i got a nice $700 bill for an ambulance ride mhmmm probably 6 blocks because some lady decided to call an ambulance we were just gonna drive down there
 
Two reasons I know the doctor was lying about the drugs he gave you:

1. Fentanyl can kill you without a ridiculous opiate tolerance

2. You take Fentanyl in a patch...

3. If you IV'd fentanyl and then morphine without an opiate tolerance you would certainly die.
 
I dont know for BC, but in QC they alway make you pay 100-125$ if you call an ambulance. They say its a way to make shure peoples dont call ambulances without reasons, this way healthcare system can be more efficient and ambulances are only used for real emergency...

100-125's a fair price tho... its just little more then a taxi? why the charge 500 in BC meh not shure but they fix the price
 
I have several stories here....

1st)) They will collect it off your income tax refund if you refuse to pay.

2nd)) You could have refused the ambulance bill, example one time when I refused it a member of ski patrol drove me over in one of there trucks, throw liability out the door he was hooking a broke ass dirtbag skibum up and it saved a few hundred dollar bill.

3rd)) I had a drinking accident on my BMX one night in Whistler. THere is a 5 set of stairs between the Starbucks & Westbeach near the IGA. One night after the bars I jumped the 5 set and when I landed my front fork snapped in half and I head butted the cement. When the ambulance showed up I was literally under a couple hundred meters away from the hospital. Drunkenly I refused service and walked over "Supervised" with an ambulance attendant. Even though I refused service they loaded my BMX in the ambulance and drove it over to the hospital. I REFUSED Service. A couple years later I got a bill, which I refused to pay, and argued to have looked over the records of the said service and dealt with bureaucratic bullshit. They took the money I owed from my next tax return.
 
i'm still trying to figure out why someone is pussy enough to get ski patrol then take an ambulance ride over a separated shoulder? if anything that's a lesson to be not such a fucking pussy.
 
I don't think you realize how much a 3rd degree separation of a shoulder hurts especially when you see your collar bone poking out of your chest not to mention having a very bad concussion, literally exploded the lens on my spy soldiers. I also said 'i got up and walked a few steps and collapsed'. so chillout, smoke some weed or something negative nancy because you've said nothing of value in this thread all you did was chirp out my injury to make yourself sound cool I guess?
 
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/08/01/health/adam/15044.jpg

look at this and honestly tell me you don't think it would hurt.
 
Dude in Aspen I dislocated my shoulder at buttermilk and the hospital was like a mile away , insurance covered all but a $1200 ambulance fee.... I feel really bad for my parents who have to pay because I'm brokeee
 
your lucky there was no helicopter cause their even more expnesive
you should always just walk, last year i broke my jaw skiing(also blacked out) and instead of hoping on the ambulance and telling ski patrol i walked from the base of blackhomb to the hospital
 
checked out a couple sites and it is pretty commonly used but just in small doses. The instance he's describing makes sense because its meant to kill pain extremely quickly but for short periods of time.

"The stronger doses of fentanyl (50mcg/hr or stronger) are for use only

in patients that are already using narcotics for pain relief. Do not use

this medication in children less than 12 years old nor in children less

than 18 years that weigh less than 110lbs (50kg) except in a research

setting."

sparknotes:http://www.medicinenet.com/fentanyl-transdermal/article.htm
 
I dropped a ledge with my scooter and fucked up my face. chipped tooth, hole in my lip, concousin, etc. Nobody called the ambulance for me...... wtf
 
350 for a ride in the amber lamps is nothing. In the US, you would be paying thousands, and if they load you onto the heli, tens of thousands.
 
Yeah dude your right. My bro is a parimedic or EMT or whatever, on an ambulance. he was telling me it could cost in the thousands for a ride in the ambulance. Idk about hepichoppers
 
yeah, try having a posterior dislocation every time you go over a speed bump, sneeze, jump, etc. torn labrums suck. Granted, i was only in that state for like a month, but it was the most painful month of my life.
 
you're wrong. i've had over 200 dislocations, 2 surgeries (one of them being a shoulder joint reconstruction) and out of all of them, one was a posterior dislocation. what you are talking about is anterior. those are nothing and pop right back in and i know how annoying they are especially when you can get one in your sleep or when you close a car door. posterior is when it pops out backward and gets jammed behind your shoulder blade. now that one took a while to get back in and was extremely painful.
 
your definately one of those annoying people that tries to one up the person before you because you need the attention which your parents didn't give you growing up. No one asked you about a posterior dislocation, I didn't even whine about my shoulder separation, all you did was belittle my injury and say you had a worse one. Okay you had a worse injury, your way tougher than me and better at hurting yourself, good job buddy.
 
ski patrol thought i broke my hip... felt liek it 2 and i wen tto the hospital in an ambulence cuz they said that if the bone moved then it could severe a main artery and i got x rays and it wasnt broken it just swelled liek a mother and i had a bone bruise... and then 2 weeks later i get a billl 4 like 700 bucks and i had health insurance... i was so mad... basically i will get to the hospital without the ambulence form now on
 
wait... so you took an ambulance for an ac joint? and then got morphine for it? you deserver the $500 bill then. i walked away from a type 3, and skiied 2 more dayson it after when i was on a trip to keystone this winter.
 
yup, when I had a bad crash on my back in Banff ski patrol said I should probably get an x-ray on my spine but I seemed to have good mobility and was probably ok and that they would normally call an ambulance but it costed 500, so I hoped on the bus to the hospital
 
Citizens on medicaid and medicare pay a fixed amount (which is ridiculously low) when they get treated for ambulance rides and stuff. So when people that aren't on medicaid and medicare (most of us) get ambulance rides the ambulance company has to charge you a ton of money to make up for all the lost money from the medicaid patients just to stay in business. You have no idea that some of these small ambulance businesses are really suffering from obama's plan to get everyone on medicare or medicaid or whatever.

I dont know all the specifics but it's really ridiculous.
 
hit the nail on the head, except for one detail... it was my foster parents and it was only because i was trying to bring attention to the fact that my foster grandpa was sexually abusing me by jerking me off in the middle of the night when everyone was asleep.

but that still doesn't make you any less of a pussy for riding in the waaambulance
 
i was with AshyToClassy when he dislocated his hip in whistler. i can vouch for the fact that they did indeed shoot him up with morphine on site, probably within 5 minutes of patrol coming to the scene. we were technically out of bounds, and patrol was on it super quick, and were far more helpful than any patrol i've encountered in the states. that flight back at home probably would have cost 20k, easily.
 
sorry man but there is no possible way I was skiing after my injury. I hate how people are trying to belittle my injury on here, it wasn't even about that, I don't fuckin care what kind of injury you've had. All I know is I've had many injuries and have a fuckin high pain threshold and that was one of the worst and most painful injuries I've ever had. To this day (11 months later) I can barely sleep on my left shoulder even after a month of physio.
 
in steamboat, unless you're critically injured, we have a free shuttle that takes you from the triage center straight to the hospital. they load you on the board straight into the back of this big van thing. but for an injury where you may go into shock, they will most likely just use an ambulance.
 
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