On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:40:02 +0000, Roland Perry put finger to
keyboard and typed:

In message op.upebegynhaghkf@lucy, at 13:50:30 on Sun, 15 Feb 2009,
Duncan Wood remarked:
A disloacated patella that could, if left, cause potentially severe
bleeding to the extent that if it were not treated, the leg itself
was at risk.

So "life threatening" to the life in the leg, perhaps, maybe?

I'm not looking for excuses here, but there does seem to be some
over-egging.

It's the same emergency call for limb threatening or life threatening,
the lack of pshycic abilities on the part of a call centre makes it
pointless differentiating.

Given that this whole debate is with the benefit of hindsight, shouldn't
that also apply to the injury?

It does. The injury was limb-threatening. And that's considered a high
priority call. It's just that a dislocated kneecap is something that
can be fairly easily treated by a trained professional without needing
emergency hospitalisation.

Mark
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