The Issue: Whether Christine Quinn reacted appropriately to a medical incident with a young staffer.
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City Council Speaker Christine Quinn showed her true incompetence in a minor emergency (“The Call on 911,” Editorial, July 18).
While the intern who collapsed due to the heat lay outside, Quinn is making phone calls looking for an ambulance.
Did it occur to her or her staff to move the girl inside and out of the heat? Or to an air conditioned vehicle? How about transporting the girl to the hospital herself?
Backlog is backlog. What is really “inexcusable” and “outrageous” is Quinn’s handling of the situation. Thankfully, it was minor. Not very mayor-like.
Edward Trennes
New Windsor
Emergency, emergency, the sky is falling, the sky is falling!
After Quinn’s embarrassing display, who could possibly still think that she is competent to be mayor?
She calls the fire commissioner, the police commissioner — and for what? A case of heat exhaustion. Why not include the mayor and president as well?
Exactly what did she expect — a Medevac helicopter to be dispatched to transport the aide to Bethesda?
Can anyone remotely conceive of her handling a real crisis? I can’t.
Michael Johnson
The Bronx
And people wonder why health care costs are so high.
Why does a fit young woman who faints in extreme heat but then revives, communicates and doesn’t writhe in pain have to be driven to an ER in an ambulance?
Why does she have to go to an ER at all?
How about a doctor’s appointment later in the week to check for things like anemia? If for some reason, those around her thought she absolutely, positively had to go to one of our clogged emergency rooms right away, why couldn’t someone in the crowd drive her instead of using a $300-an-hour ambulance?
Quinn might have asked herself these questions if she wasn’t so busy showboating for the press.
Stephanie Gutmann
Stony Point