How bad is LA County s hospital crisis? Paramedic gives frontline view of desperate situation
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LOS ANGELES (KABC) Tanya Crabbe has been with the Los Angeles Fire Department for 12 years and a paramedic for four.
Crabbe says the job has its challenges, but our current COVID-19 surge has her hanging on by a thread. It s a tremendous amount of pressure. I only have so many resources with my knowledge and experiences and certifications and my equipment, but if the hospital is unavailable, I just don t have the resources that that patient may need, said Crabbe. They need a doctor, a hospital bed to be taken care and how do you explain that to the patient, they don t understand that. How do you explain that to the patient s family. I only have so much I can do for you at this moment.