Spikito1

Nurse here. There are many reasons to have diversion.

My current hospital has 1 neurologist. She cant work 24/7. If she goes home to India, we go on neuro divert. Stroke patients have to go to another hospital with a neurologist. Same goes for anything that requires a certain specialist.

We also on divert when no beds are available. If the 24 bed ICU has 24 patients in it, then we go on trauma divert. We cannot admit the patient, so they go down the street.

EMS dispatchers have a system that tracks the divert status of every hospital in the region, and the list is updated every few hours. So it's not like the ambulance shows up at the ER , then gets turned away, they already know where they can go when they pick up the patient

I'm curious about how the interrogation/investigation process went. Since this was just "3 dumb college kids", but that they managed to pull off such a big operation. Did they sit you down in a empty room and play good cop bad cop? Did you fess up right away?

Also, did you appropriately care for the books once in possession? Were they kept safe or just sitting on a coffee table?

The unemployed neurologist market is slim. Its not like you just put up a wanted poster.

Hospitals all communicate with each other and with EMS crews about diversion status. Ambulances know where they can and cant go, and are updated every few hours.

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