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The stats don’t differentiate between outer boroughs & night calls.
They are all inclusive. When I did my Medic training – they were plenty busy. As a matter fact, they did all sort of Shtick to avoid responding. Most days they had more calls than units able to respond to them!
You give me quite an interesting logic toy here. But your argument is actually self-defeating .
let’s make a simple if then flowchart .
if the resources of EMS are structured to reflect the volume of calls coming in based on where they’re coming from then the averages would equal out to the -total , average worker to call ratio.
if they are not spreading their resources according to need, then think for a moment .
what we have is, in the congested inner boroughs (whichever that may be )you have an overwhelming amount of calls , meaning ,longer to no response times .as you ended yourself in your post “that sometimes there were too many calls to respond to ”
not a very comforting nor positive result for somebody in An emergency situation.
if you’re in an Outer Borough then according to your logic, your EMS workers get far fewer cases than the average of 1.6 per week. leaving him woefully inadequately prepared for emergencies.
the only way around the unpreparedness would be to say that they are rotating the staff and their positions .
But in that case you would probably end up with the same average , being as part-time they are in high volume areas and part-time in low-volume areas.
to sum it all up there is no way to have all EMS workers getting higher exexperience and sufficient coverage if you accept the total number of calls and the total number of workers as stated in the Wikipedia article.( unless, and I don’t think you were, you are claiming that they are either overstating the call volume or, Understating worker counts. )
And if you will say they are constantly shifting workers from high to low zones you are only making the outcome worse for the patient not better as you can and will end up having low experienced workers operating in high call zones, and when they finally get experience you shift them out to the outer boroughs, where they sit and wait for calls.
Talk about playing Russian roulette!!