Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxi.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!ihnp4!ihuxi!walsh From: walsh@ihuxi.UUCP (B. Walsh) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: Puzzled by treatment Message-ID: <786@ihuxi.UUCP> Date: Mon, 30-Jan-84 13:18:32 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxi.786 Posted: Mon Jan 30 13:18:32 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 5-Feb-84 11:00:39 EST References: ihuxw.675 <350@ittral.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 11 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