Not worth saving?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,474454,00.html

"Two EMT workers in Britain were arrested after they were heard allegedly discussing whether they should bother to resuscitate a disabled man who had collapsed at home and subsequently died."

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Permalink Reply by Brian Evans on January 1, 2009 at 9:08pm

But when is it too much? I have been on runs where the patient is DOA and we still transported just pumping drugs into the patient (it was an OD and we used the standard doses ad standard intervals etc etc.... standard textbook work)

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Permalink Reply by Brian Evans on January 1, 2009 at 11:07pm

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article5420921.ece

Hopefully that works, that is the original article

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Permalink Reply by Mike Schlags (Captain Busy) Retd on January 2, 2009 at 12:14am

These guys acted like they were God... This is not our right to judge whether someone lives or dies. It is inappropriate to judge anything by the way someone's residence looks like, what they look like or anything for that matter. Sometimes, things are not always the way they appear.

We should always try to save a life whenever possible. If you don't have this mindset and professional ethic than you have absolutely no business being in this profession.

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Permalink Reply by Ricky on January 2, 2009 at 12:56pm

Amen, Michael.
It happens though. Sometimes out of laziness, sometimes b/c the medics think the patient would be better off. Either way , its not up to us.