Back to work today, the dog prowls around when she sees me in uniform, she knows I won't be around so we won't be doing anything fun! I leave the house at 05:30 and set off for the station some 32 miles from my house, wondering who will be coming to work with me today as I have a vacant line one side of me on the rota.
We have brand new recliners when I arrive and the door handle which has been broken for over a week has at last been fixed, my crew mate turns up, he's on overtime , bless him!
The first two jobs we are stood down from before arriving, miraculous recovery's.
Then we are sent to a 19 year old with chest pain, in the back of the ambulance we do some observations on him, all we can find wrong is a fast pulse (Tachycardia) but as he has told us he has a history of inflamation of the cardiac tissue we tell him we will pop him up to the local A&E. Our patient refuses, there then ensues a few minutes of me and my crew mate trying to persuade him that this would be his best option, and if he was my son I would want him to go! Still he refuses, he signs the disclaimer and we have to let him off. Shutting the back doors of the vehicle we begin to tidy up, suddenly the boys mother throws open the back doors and, shouts abuse and threats at us for not taking him in, the father then joins in saying if anything happens we will be sued. We leave the mess and drive off, radioing control to inform them of the situation.
We have no power to force someone to go to hospital if they are in their right mind, why abuse us if the outcome is not favourable, this situation led to 5 police officers being deployed as the family started following the vehicle.
What a waste of resources and money!
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