TIME Magazine is the latest to kill your summer vacay buzz. They report on an interactive map from the American Trauma Society that allows you to determine how quickly you could access potentially life saving trauma care. As this helpful article points out, the areas suffering a dearth of trauma centers encompass a bunch of popular vacation destinations.
Actually the article is mostly about disparities in care in urban and rural centers, particularly with high risk emergencies – not just accidents, but strokes, heart attacks, etc. It’s sad that to make this point, we need to appeal to wealthy vacationing urbanites and their fears of not being able to access emergency care. Too often, we forget about the folks that live in our favorite vacation spots year round – often in near or outright poverty.
And now I’ve killed your buzz too.
