Re: keep an eye on what your kids are doing, 3yr old dies

Posted by IOWA NORTHEAST on July 12, 2010 at 22:37:35 from (206.72.18.89):

In Reply to: Re: keep an eye on what your kids are doing, 3yr old dies posted by buickanddeere on July 12, 2010 at 20:49:48:

This probably seems as if I'm arguing with you, but that is not the intent at all.

You mentioned the Good Samaritan Act, and it sure had good intentions, but has been smacked around a little more than what is ever let on. We have been told that if you exceed your training, it does not apply. If a person is disabled for life, you can bet the insurance company is going after some one or some unit.

And somehow AIDS patients are held on a cloud, regardless who suffers.

Bottom line is this all costs money to defend ourselves. I was named in a lawsuit, I was not at the scene, rather sleeping in my bed. After the third round, the guy died of AIDS. When you are dying, what do you have to lose in a law suit?

Like I stated before, I'm a load and go sometimes, just not always. We have a super well trained crew, yet we have a crew member that is on a higher --rule the kindom ---state of mind. But we have that in all areas, weather it is poly -ticks, old tractor dudes, and for sure the mother in law types.

Another thing many folks--no this case perhaps--assume the EMS knows all the facts they bystander has witnessed. It's not easy walking into something cold, and I have made a butt head out of myself by assuming on many calls. Often the facts are not brought forth for days. Many times things are very confusing because of my assumptions just knowing some of the facts, and not all of them. This (discusing a case) to by the way is against all policys. Yep!, discusing calls among our own crew members. By the way, as a footnote to comunicating calls with in our crew members---we all remove the tags off our mattresses also.

Those crew members probably did indeed screw up, perhaps poor judgment calls. If you whitness that sort of thing, why not ask questions to the crew members in a decent tone at a different time. They may or may not have a good reason.

Our crew, and every crew I know of has definate, very exact ---(To the second) times recorded on every run, every voice that comes across the radio, and coment made. These times are reviewed by our crew, and inspected, by the state
and that is for every call made. If anything is out of line, we get a naughty note in our file. They don't beat around the bush with nice words, nore do the add sugar. If anything is below a 98% or less, all heck breaks loose.

Our insurance company can not allow poor run sheets, or poor responce times.

You folks must understand also that there are so many limits placed on emergency responders it makes ones head hurt. I got in alot of hot water climbing a water tower without a harness for a victum having a heart attack. The harness is ten to fifteen munites from the scene. I was recently informed that under no curcumstance will any resonce team climb the water tower for any reason. They haven't heard the last of me yet on that one. Our motto is we can only hope the folks who make the rules will be the next client, so they can get a real hands on education.

Going after a EMS person, is kinda like going after the Amish -- not real popular.

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