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- From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
- Newsgroups: misc.emerg-services
- Subject: Re: no docs for NYC EMS
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- Date: 23 Jan 1993 14:09:08 GMT
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- In article <Pine.3.05.9301222117.A18490-c100000@sun.panix.com> dannyb@PANIX.COM (Daniel Burstein) writes:
- >Richard Gutwirth: Many people will end up going to the hospital that don't
- >need to go to the hospital, because the ultimate authority not to take
- >them rests here in telemetry. So what will happen is that we'll be
- >transporting someone who does not need (to go to the hosital, and while
- >we're doing this) a cardiac arrest will occur, and (we won't be there to
- >help).
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- Huh? How is it possible in New York for a paramedic to take someone to the
- hospital that doesn't want to go? Do they have the authority to arrest the
- patient, or do they simply have immunity from kidnapping laws?
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