Ambulances rarely have to drive around town looking for a hospital that will accept patients. Ambulance companies and volunteer corps get telephone calls from hospitals when they are full and are not admitting patients. Usually they would still take a patient into the emergency department. This is called being on "treat and release". Catherine Watson Genna, IBCLC and former EMT *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html