Reply #4: Well as a medic I was almost sued three times

[nadinbrzezinski]

1.- By an ambulance chaser, low scum, lawyer... good news, we transported his son from the Jail in TJ to a hospital in the US and kid made it. But that little matter of where the call originated saved my bacon... And yes, he wanted to sue me for practicing medicine without a license in the US.

2.- A school district that shall go unnamed for destruction of school property. The kid, who was playing American Football against a Mexican school in TJ broke his neck in the scrimmage line. He walks these days thanks to the very advanced (and I might say unexpected) emergency care he got from us low brown skinned medics, I am guilty by association. The school didn't care about the kid, just the 600 dollars worth of equipment, which I cut off... oh well

3.- The family of a patient who was crippled in a car crash. I moved her since the car WAS on fire...

I still stop at emergencies, and every time I think to myself, who amongst these nice looking folks will file a lawsuit? IN fact those three, are the reason I never practice as a paramedic in the US. EVER. And as I said, only thing that saved my bacon was... where these things happened, oh the third one was in the US, but they dropped it, thankfully, after the fire department showed them the piccie of the totaled car and asked them if they'd rather bury their relative.

A few years ago a couple LA County medics were sued... and when all was said and done they lost all their certs et al, and one of then said that soon people would call 9.11 and nobody would respond... I tend to agree with them. By the way, they were found not guilty, but both left the service... they could not afford to go back to school to get all their certs back.