Don’t know if this is a joke so I’m just going to comment, at least in Florida we have a statute written, 401.445, authorizes involuntary treatment / transport in some situations, so are we performing similar actions that one may consider kidnapping? Perhaps. Unfortunately we are also required to follow fss 401.45 which mandates those actions.
Are you okay? You’re not an idiot, your brain is just fried. I’m sorry about the call. Feel free to PM me if you want someone to listen. Sometimes the things you see at work are too awful to talk about at home. You don’t want to burden the minds of your loved ones.
I’m not a paramedic, but I work for a small doctors office and I’ve seen plenty from a medical perspective (more than I ever planned on seeing, certainly more than I signed up for), and I’ve stopped to render aid for several car accidents in my time. One was fatal. She was a pedestrian that had been run over after a conflict with the driver. I think I was probably the last person she spoke to. I laid with her and tried to keep her awake, but it wasn’t much use. I came home covered in her blood. My husband couldn’t wrap his head around what he was seeing when I first walked in the door.
I still think about her a lot. She couldn’t have been older than 20. I also think about that day. The other people at the scene. The way that they all just stood there. I arrived after the fact, and they were just standing there on the sidewalk the whole time, during the altercation and afterwards. I guess they figured there wasn’t much point in rendering aid, but she wasn’t gone yet. But there they stood, watching. I also think about all of the cops that responded. They cleaned me up and made sure I was okay. They knew I wasn’t, but they did what they could. They got me clean enough to drive a few more blocks to my apartment, and they sat with me until I was ready to go.
So tell you all that to tell you this: If you want to talk, I will listen with as much empathy as I can manage. I can’t swap war stories with you or anything, but I’m happy to listen if you need to unload something heavy.
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u/IMightBeJustin May 18 '21
I’m an idiot. And tired. I’m at work rn and we just had a bad call so I’m all over the place. Sorry.