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From: walsh@ihuxi.UUCP (B. Walsh)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Puzzled by treatment
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Date: Mon, 30-Jan-84 13:18:32 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 30 13:18:32 1984
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What burns me about the treatment of the boy (Johnny) is that the
emergency medical techs (EMTs) worked on him themselves for over an
HOUR, when a hospital was only three minutes away! These EMTs get too
carried away trying to "stabilize" patients, when they should be concerned
with transporting said patients to the hospital. The boy was unconscious
when pulled out of the water (really, he was clinically dead) and they
sat there for an hour in the ambulance. Unbelievable.

Leave medicine to medics!

B. Walsh