[chaosagent]

but when I’m in cardiac tamponade after a car accident on I-95 I want an adult...a professional...scooping me off the Interstate.

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So you would also have a problem with an 18 year old combat medic plugging up the six shrapnel holes in your chest while starting a large bore IV hoping he can get blood into you faster than it’s leaking out.

Or didn’t you read the part where they take the same courses and instruction, and have to pass the same test with a higher score than that ‘adult’ who just passed with a 70.

[Gay State Conservative]

So you would also have a problem with an 18 year old combat medic...

Apples and oranges.

Or didn’t you read the part where they take the same courses...

It doesn't matter...to me at least.When lives are at stake...or,at least,when *my* life is at stake...I want experience.I have a strong preference for health care personnel who have at least a touch of gray.

But it seems to me that Darien is doing this at least partially as a cost saving measure.If,as another poster suggested,Darien has an agreement with next-door Stamford (a much bigger city,US headquarters of several major European banks) then that's cool.But if not....