today is, somehow, the third time that I've heard about EMS being called to an "unresponsive person found down" who was, upon closer inspection, a skeleton
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I imagine there's a notion in emergency medicine that people with no training can't reliably diagnose anything, so it's treated as an emergency even if it's very clear they're already dead. Like, the dispatcher would assume "i literally found a human skeleton" was hyperbole and the caller isn't thinking strait, or something like that.
I don't think it's that they don't believe the caller, but there's a policy written up somewhere for "discovery of a body" that has "attempt resuscitation" as the first step, and what are you going to do, violate a policy???
Or there might be some information-bottlenecking step in the dispatch process that only transmits the complaint as "DEAD BODY FOUND"
(only like 1/4 serious) see this is why we need to emphasize community and non-carceral solutions to problems smh, if the person would just go up to them and ask what's wrong then we wouldn't have this kind of problem