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Comment on Not trying to disparage first responders on 911. Why aren't nurses included with fire and police departments? Did we not take care of people on the backend of the rescuing?

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RattlerSix@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

I’m not sure if you’re aware but when it became apparent that a big event was happening on the morning of Sept 11, the hospitals braced for mass casualties and… waited… and waited… and they never came.

marketwatch.com/…/how-they-first-knew-9-11-was-so…

There were only 20 people pulled from the rubble. Six were firefighters, and 5 were police.

Nurses get a lot of well deserved praise. It’s just that in this case there wasn’t an uptick in emergency medical needs.

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Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
This is why right here. Had hospitals and makeshift medical areas been swarmed with patients, nurses would have responded and been praised for it, as they should. But there weren't survivors, which highlighted how bad it was.

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