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  • No no. Broken bones would probably be Orange. Some bone breaks are potentially life threatening by themselves (pelvis, femur, and skull/spine obviously), and then if they break through the skin that really changes things. Part of this that the call-taker and dispatcher make an informed assessment on the situation based on the information given over the phone.

    BC uses this exact system and has for some time. However, they haven’t implemented Green calls yet so they get lumped into Yellow. An example of a Green call might be more like “I accidentally left my daily medication in my pocket when I was doing laundry and the only pharmacy in town isn’t open until 2 days from now and I have no way to get to the hospital by myself”.

    Everyone’s got different life situations so scenarios like that one really do come up and they do need caring for, but any reasonable person would agree that they’re in a different category than “I think I’m having a heart attack”