RE: This is appalling !!!
December 22, 2009 at 12:19 pm
(This post was last modified: December 22, 2009 at 12:29 pm by chatpilot.)
Meatball said: "I might be wrong on this, but this seems like it could be criminal negligence. People with medical training are held to a higher legal standard for things like this, if I'm not mistaken."
You are absolutely correct mb at least in the U.S. they are obligated to act because of their training. They are not just an average citizen with basic cpr training their training goes way beyond that and the fact that they were in uniform at the time still means that they were on duty. Even if they were not on duty from a human standpoint I personally would be compelled to help.
The police officers of this state are in a similar position, you are an officer 24 hours a day even when you are off duty. And based on that assumption if you are off duty and witness a crime in progress you are obligated to act. The spokesman for the NY EMTs: "Our people tend to spring into action whether they're on duty, off duty, whatever they're doing," said Robert Ungar, spokesman for the Uniformed EMTS and Paramedics, FDNY, explaining that Emergency medical practitioners consider themselves to be on call 24 hours a day.
You are absolutely correct mb at least in the U.S. they are obligated to act because of their training. They are not just an average citizen with basic cpr training their training goes way beyond that and the fact that they were in uniform at the time still means that they were on duty. Even if they were not on duty from a human standpoint I personally would be compelled to help.
The police officers of this state are in a similar position, you are an officer 24 hours a day even when you are off duty. And based on that assumption if you are off duty and witness a crime in progress you are obligated to act. The spokesman for the NY EMTs: "Our people tend to spring into action whether they're on duty, off duty, whatever they're doing," said Robert Ungar, spokesman for the Uniformed EMTS and Paramedics, FDNY, explaining that Emergency medical practitioners consider themselves to be on call 24 hours a day.
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