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Patrick,
Although you claimed to disagreed with me,
your rebuttal mirrors alot of what I was saying. You stated:
"When people have it coming, I say that they should get it. But to
insinuate that (in article #1, because I didn't get past day #2) the girl would
almost certainly have lived "if only" is bull guano" This is a classic
example of the "Rescue 911" attitude a large part of the general public
has. It didn't take an article in USA Today for people to have these
type of unrealistic views of what we can and can't do, they have had these false
images for quite some time. I once had a family member become physically
violent because we did not call a helicopter to the scene of his 70 year old
fathers cardiac arrest at a high school football game. We were on standby
at the game, at the patients side within a minute of his collapse and worked
a v-fib code using the entire arsenal of defib and medications without
success. The family member told us his father would still be alive had we
called a helicopter like on Rescue 911. (his words, not mine) This
was almost a decade ago. My whole point was we need to stand up and tell
the public the truth! They need to know we are under funded, they need to
know that the care available varies greatly from place to place, they need to
know that even when an EMS system is working at it's best people die!
Wesley Copeland, FP-C
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