Thursday, December 10, 2009

Ambulances and Fat People

In UK, a review of procedures is under way after an overweight man died as a result of being dropped by ambulance attendants.

It's a sad story, but the thing that really caught my attention is this screen from the accompanying video:



It describes the words of an emergency room nurse who wanted EMT's to stop ventilating an elderly patient.

Guess you could call her a one-person "death panel."

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