Patients look to paramedics to help with growing healthcare needs

Groups of paramedics in a number of states are making an effort to assist with the gap in primary healthcare by providing some patients with house calls; an initiative that the federal healthcare law is hoping will help to address the primary healthcare shortages and to reduce the emergency room and doctors’ office visits that are much more costly. Examples of the types of services performed by these paramedics are patient prescription checks, electrocardiograms, drawing blood, changing dressings, and making other observations that would otherwise require a trip to visit…

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