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Teenage Ambulance Drivers in Rural New York
from #287 - Drug Recognition Expert | The Tim Dillon Show · #287
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Tim discusses a news story about a rural New York town using untrained teenagers to drive ambulances due to a shortage of adult volunteers after COVID, joking about what it would be like to be a stoned teen EMT.
- Rural New York high school kids are being enlisted to drive ambulances because there's no one else available.
- Tim imagines being a stoned teenager responsible for operating an ambulance in an emergency.
- 35% of ambulance services in rural America are entirely volunteer-run, with 69% of them struggling to find workers.
- In the moment of a medical emergency, many people arriving to help you are doing it purely because they feel like it that day.
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