Notes about Rural Emergency Healthcare

My daughter has been a trauma nurse for 11 years and has worked level 1 trauma centers in the inner city.  She says there is no way they can teach life-saving diagnosis and trauma care in a 6 hour class and frankly it sounds ridiculous to me.  That policeman, or other first responder, would also be dealing with traffic control, trying not to get himself or one of the trauma victims ran over, while probably dealing with more than one trauma victim and not qualified to determine who is the most unstable patient even if he had 16 hands to deal with all of these crucial tasks at the same time.  That alone is endangering the policeman/first responder as well as the victim/victims regardless of any other issues and is unfair to both.  He is also responsible for calling appropriate people such as hospitals, ambulances, fire department personnel, and by the way he probably doesn't even have 'the jaws of life' to cut someone out of a vehicle and has no backboard or equipment to stablize a damaged spine if/when he can get them out.  

The problem is the rural areas need faster transport to trauma centers while the patient is receiving live-saving diagnosis and treatment from truly qualified healthcare providers with the appropriate equipment and supplies. That means more ambulances and ambulance bases located IN rural areas where people can get treatment from qualified personnel with the correct equipment, drugs and other supplies so a patient doesn't die simply because they bled out from wounds that should not have been fatal.

Arizona simply needs to invest more in people's lives by investing in appropriate healthcare personnel and equipment IN the rural areas rather than making a show of spending money on a 6-hr course that isn't going to do anything except endanger the first responder and victim while giving money to a healthcare corporation based in the city where people have trauma care. You can't teach a policeman to start IVs on a roadside trauma bleeding out when he won't have any blood to administer anyway. This is so obviously what Republicans would do; give the money to a healthcare corporation for something that won't make a real difference just to make it look like they're trying to do something for the people when they're just pushing more money to the top and people are still dying.