In modern society, especially in densely populated mega-cities like New York. In fact, they all faced a very real and serious problem.
That was the lack of public medical resources. The larger the mega-city, the more crowded the place was, the more likely it was to face this problem.
In fact, since the beginning of human civilization, medical problems had never really been solved. No matter what civilization or country. Almost all races faced the problem of insufficient medical resources.
Because the profession of doctors was to save lives. Therefore, in any era, doctors had a very high social status. This had not changed since ancient times.
In modern society, because of the different development situations in different places, medical resources were seriously skewed. A few big cities had the majority of high-quality medical resources, which was extremely criticized.
But even so, medical resources in mega-cities were still quite scarce, because everyone had the possibility of getting sick or injured.
Especially when tens of millions of people were crowded in a narrow city, this kind of ultra-high-density living state was actually more likely to have all kinds of urban diseases and injuries. This was not an alarmist statement.
Countless practical examples had proved this point. Most people were pursuing the various hidden benefits in big cities and developed cities. Such as medical care and education. This was also the main reason why most people left their homes to make a living in big cities like New York or Shanghai.
Because of the uneven distribution of resources, many people had to do this. But many people actually did not know that they were pursuing hidden benefits such as medical care. In fact, the medical system in big cities had long been overwhelmed.
Take Shanghai, China, for example. This was one of the most densely populated cities in the world. The population was estimated to be 26 million, but the actual population was far more than this figure.
In such a huge city, the number of 120 ambulances running in the city every day was less than 500. In fact, many people couldn't get emergency care at all when they really needed it.
And Shanghai was not an exception. Because New York in the United States was not much better than Shanghai. Public emergency resources were also very scarce in this world-famous city.
A large part of the reason why Thor was able to smoothly join the ambulance team at Strange's hospital and become a stretcher bearer was because of this. Because there was a real shortage of manpower.
A stretcher bearer did not need much special expertise. The main thing was to be strong and able to carry the wounded. Especially in a country like the United States, where the people were generally fat.
After that, he just needed to master the most basic methods of wound dressing. He just needed to be able to help emergency doctors deal with simple wounds. It could be said that Thor fulfilled both conditions, so it was not surprising that he was chosen as the stretcher bearer.
The standard equipment for an ambulance was a driver, a doctor, and a stretcher bearer. Sometimes, the driver also needed to take on the role of a stretcher bearer and help the stretcher bearer transport the patients. This was especially so when the doctor in the car did not have enough physical strength.
It sounded like the job of a stretcher bearer was easy, but why couldn't they recruit anyone? At the end of the day, this was a very stressful job, and the working hours were very irregular.
Many people thought that ambulances were just parked in the hospital when there was nothing to do, and a group of people were chatting in the waiting room. They would only be mobilized when they received a call. That was a far cry from reality.
Due to the shortage of emergency resources, there was no time to stop and rest once a regular ambulance was in operation. Sometimes, they didn't even have a fixed time to eat.
And Thor joined such a job. He thought that after getting rid of Li Jie, he could relax a little. But in reality, he would find that he was still as broken as before. In fact, the difficulty and pressure of the job made him feel that it was easier to go through Li Jie's hell training.
"Dr. Christen, are you the doctor in the ambulance today?" Lawson, the driver of Thor's ambulance squad, asked.
Lawson was a stocky, typical American in his fifties. Dr. Christen, who he was asking about, was a beautiful doctor with long black hair.
Christen tied her long black hair into a ponytail, looking smart and capable. She still had half a piece of toast in her mouth, and it looked like she hadn't had time to eat breakfast.
Thor had a little impression of this female doctor. This female doctor seemed to be the doctor that Dr. Strange wanted to go on a date with yesterday.
"Yes, Lawson, because Almond quit. Our emergency doctors are getting fewer and fewer, "Christen said helplessly.
This was the helplessness of emergency doctors because they were on the frontline of emergency treatment for a long time. However, because they were the first to deal with the first aid, after the first aid, they would be transferred to the corresponding expert doctor.
This caused the reputation and income of emergency doctors to be far less than that of expert doctors. Because of the disproportionate amount of effort and return, many emergency doctors would eventually choose to change careers.
This was the case with Dr. Almond. A small hospital was willing to hire him as an attending doctor, so he immediately quit his job here. Christen couldn't make any comments about this.
"Oh, by the way, Dr. Christen, this is our new stretcher bearer. His name is Thor. "The driver, Lawson, introduced the two of them.
"Hello." Christen greeted Thor simply. "When we need you to do it later, remember to be fast. Hmm? You're pretty strong, aren't you? "Kristin looked at the fat Thor with uncertainty.
Thor tried his best to put on a strong posture. "Leave the hard work to me." Although Thor was fat, his foundation was there. His strength and speed were not slow. It could be said that he was a bit like the young Sammo Hung. He was also a flexible, fast, and strong fat man.
Christen only nodded at Thor's words. She looked like a very capable woman. She didn't talk too much nonsense. When she received the order to leave the ambulance, she immediately boarded the ambulance and finished the rest of her breakfast and the half a piece of toast in the ambulance.
The first thing Thor encountered in his new job was a car accident. A taxi driver was hit by a truck that appeared from the side. The taxi was directly scrapped. After the firefighters rescued the driver, they found that his vital signs were rapidly declining.
When Thor arrived at the scene with the ambulance, the driver was on the verge of death because of the trauma and bleeding.
"Hurry up, guys!" When they arrived at the scene, Christen was the first to rush out of the door.
Thor and Lawson carried the first aid kit and stretcher and followed behind Christen. But Christen ran as fast as a gust of wind. Thor almost couldn't keep up with her.
When Christen rushed to the injured's side, she found that the artery in his leg had been pierced by the metal of the door. Now the metal was still in the leg and couldn't be removed. Once it was removed, a lot of blood would be lost, which could be fatal.
Christen reached behind her without looking back. "Hemostatic bandage!" At this time, Thor had just arrived behind Christen. It was as if she had eyes in the back of her head.
"Oh, okay!" Thor immediately found a hemostatic bandage from the first aid kit and gave it to Christen. After all, Thor still knew about the first aid bandage.
Because of the metal piercing through the wound, Christen couldn't bandage the injured's wound. She could only use the hemostatic bandage to press on the wound.
But the injured's condition was not optimistic. She glanced at the injured and found that there were signs of pupil dilation. She shouted to Thor, "You come and press on the wound."
When Thor took over Christen's place and began to press on the injured's wound. Christen began to perform CPR on the wounded.
"Breathe! Breathe! "Christen pressed on the injured's chest in a very rhythmic manner. But the injured already had a tendency to be unable to breathe on his own.
Christen immediately carried out a double rescue of artificial respiration and CPR on the injured. After a full 40 seconds, the injured began to breathe on his own again.
"Oxygen!" Christen shouted to Lawson, the driver. Lawson immediately took out a portable oxygen bag and handed it to Christen.
After putting the oxygen bag on the injured, under Christen's command, Thor and Lawson carefully carried the injured onto the stretcher. Finally, they were sent to the ambulance.
In the process of transporting the injured, Christen observed the injured's breathing, heartbeat, and pulse. She confirmed the injured's vital signs and survival. Her serious expression reminded Thor of the expressions of soldiers before countless wars.
For Christen, this might be her battlefield.
After transporting the injured to the nearest hospital, they were transferred to the hospital. Before Thor and the others had time to rest, they received the next task.
A man had a seizure in the park. Epilepsy was a very dangerous disease. When it happened, the whole body would twitch. The most dangerous part was that it was possible to bite off one's tongue during the convulsions.
This man had no previous medical history, so it might be a sudden illness. Because he was nearly two meters tall and weighed more than 110 kilograms, the passersby around him couldn't hold his convulsions at all.
"Thor, hold him down!" Christen looked at the big man who was twitching, and then glanced at Thor, who was also huge, and immediately ordered.
"Oh." Although he didn't like the order very much, Thor glanced at Christen and helped her hold the patient down.
This allowed Christen to smoothly inject a special tranquilizer into the patient. It relieved the muscle spasms and convulsions of the big man.
In the ambulance, Thor looked at the white foam on his clothes and felt a wave of nausea. This was stuck to his clothes when the guy foamed at the mouth when he had an attack.
"Don't use your hands to wipe this kind of thing. There are disinfectant pads in the box." Christen glanced at Thor and knew what he was thinking.
"Thank you." Thor found the disinfectant pads. "Do you deal with these people every day? This is really not a good job. "Thor had just come into contact with two patients, and he already felt that this job was not very pleasant.
"Some jobs have to be done." Christen didn't answer Thor's question directly. She just looked at Thor deeply. Then she took out a piece of chocolate from the pocket of her coat and handed it to him.
"I don't think we have time for lunch."
Thor paid attention to the time. Just rescuing two patients had already passed the morning, and it was almost half past one in the afternoon.
Christen took out a piece of chocolate and ate it in small bites. Thor noticed that her hands were very slender, and some traces of blood vessels could be seen under her smooth skin.
Just as Kristin said, they were busy working until noon, and there was no time to stop and rest. In the end, they just angrily bought a hot dog on the side of the road for lunch.
In the afternoon, Thor and Christen saved a girl who wanted to commit suicide because she was heartbroken. She cut her vein and turned on the faucet so that the blood could not clot.
When her parents found her, she had already lost too much blood and was unconscious. Christen gave her an emergency blood transfusion in the ambulance.
After that, it was a middle-aged man who began to overeat because he lost his job. He ate a lot of food in the restaurant. Because of his overeating, some of the food got stuck in his trachea, causing him to be unable to breathe.
Christen used all kinds of methods to help him remove the foreign object. Following this small ambulance, Thor saw all kinds of people in this world.
Of course, not all rescues could save a life. When they went out for the last time today, they received a report of a young man who was caught under the wheels of a car while riding a bicycle.
His legs were completely crushed, and the blood from the wound could not be stopped. Even if Christen used all her strength, she tried to stop the young man's bleeding. She tried to give him an emergency blood transfusion. She gave him CPR. Even after his heart stopped beating, she tried to defibrillate his heart.
But even so, the young man's life could not be saved. His face, which was defeated because of the blood loss, looked unusually young. He looked less than 20 years old.
When he was sent to the hospital and declared dead, Thor glanced at Christen. He knew how hard the female doctor had worked just now, and he was afraid to see her disappointed expression.
But Christen just sighed slightly, turned around, and left. In the ambulance, Christen's hands were a little shaky.
That was because she had just continuously given the young man CPR, which caused her hands to lose strength.
"Christen, are you okay?" Thor looked at the trembling Christen and asked.
"I'm fine, big guy," Christen replied.
"I'm sorry, Christen. That young man could not be saved. "Thor was used to seeing death. After all, it was either you die or I die on the battlefield. He said this only to comfort Christen.
Because the female doctor's performance today made him feel a new level of respect. For the first time, she made him abandon the prejudice of gender.
"This is war, and I am a warrior. There are always winners and losers in war. "Christen's words made Thor feel a little strange.
"Huh?" He was a little confused. Why did Christen think this was war? She was a warrior? Thor was a real battlefield, a fierce man who killed generals and captured flags.
Christen smiled tiredly. "Since I swore to the medical book that I would devote my life to saving people, regardless of whether the other party was rich or poor. Regardless of the other party's race or gender. Regardless of their age or faith. "
"This is my declaration of war. I will fight against disease for the rest of my life. I will fight against death with all my energy. I will fight for the medical environment with everything I have learned. This battle will not end until I die, "Christen said calmly.
"I will not be dejected because of a defeat. Because this battle still has a long way to go. "
Compared to the Doctor Strange he saw yesterday, although this job was recommended by him, Thor did not like him at all.
But as for Christen, Thor suddenly felt that she was not a bad person.
Looking at Christen, Thor suddenly said, "Strange is not a good person. You'd better not date him."
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