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Medics Caught on Tape Allegedly Decided Disabled Man Not Worth Saving
Fox News ^ | 12/31/08 | The Times

Posted on 01/01/2009 8:11:15 AM PST by NoGrayZone

Edited on 01/01/2009 8:14:54 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

Two EMT workers in Britain were arrested after they were heard allegedly discussing whether they should bother to resuscitate a disabled man who had collapsed at home and subsequently died.

Barry Baker, 59, who lived alone, dialed 911 saying that he thought he was having a heart attack. An ambulance was sent to his house while a controller kept him talking on the line.


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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: britain; disposablepeople; emergency911; emt; ethics; life; medics; moralabsolutes; prolife
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Absolutely disgusting what Britain has turned into. Unfortunately, a lot of people in the US want us to be more like them. No thanks!
1 posted on 01/01/2009 8:11:15 AM PST by NoGrayZone
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To: NoGrayZone

National “Health Care” at its best. Yes, I said at its best. It only goes downhill from there.


2 posted on 01/01/2009 8:13:30 AM PST by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: NoGrayZone

In all of these articles about this subject, they never mention the nature of the victim’s disability, only that he was “disabled.”

Shoddy reporting.


3 posted on 01/01/2009 8:13:52 AM PST by bolobaby
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To: NoGrayZone

Oh Man!! How often does this happen when it’s not recorded? The fruits of Darwinism.


4 posted on 01/01/2009 8:14:31 AM PST by demshateGod (the GOP is dead to me)
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To: bolobaby

He had recently had hip replacement surgery.


5 posted on 01/01/2009 8:16:30 AM PST by LauraJean (sometimes I win sometimes I donate to the equine benevolent society)
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To: Westbrook

You said it!


6 posted on 01/01/2009 8:17:22 AM PST by NoGrayZone (Just Registered With the Conservative Party...RINO's can kiss my......)
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To: NoGrayZone

File this under, another reason not to believe government and the people it employs, will act in your best interests.


7 posted on 01/01/2009 8:19:02 AM PST by Williams (It's The Policies, Stupid.)
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To: NoGrayZone
The microphone is always on, right Jesse?
8 posted on 01/01/2009 8:21:20 AM PST by rarestia ("One man with a gun can control 100 without one." - Lenin / MOLWN LABE!)
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To: demshateGod

THIS is what the Liberal Democrat Left has planned for America.

Britain is their model.


9 posted on 01/01/2009 8:21:35 AM PST by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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To: demshateGod
I can tell you of a good friends Aunt, who was elderly and in the hospital. She was allergic to some antibiotics and that is what the hospital gave her, in which, she died very soon after.

There was a whole lot more detail to the story and I remember talking to my friend about her Aunt while it was going on. I told her they are trying to kill her, none of what was taking place made any sense, except for that conclusion.

Long story short, she died, my friend now believes they “killed her”. Unfortunately, I believe “killing” the disabled and elderly has come to the USA.

God must be ticked off at such ruthlessness!

10 posted on 01/01/2009 8:22:49 AM PST by NoGrayZone (Just Registered With the Conservative Party...RINO's can kiss my......)
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In all of these articles about this subject, they never mention the nature of the victim’s disability, only that he was “disabled.”

Shoddy reporting.


That's the fault of Fox news.

Much better article from the Time here...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article5420921.ece

This is his apparent disability.

Mr Baker, who used sticks to help to him walk after undergoing hip replacement surgery, made the emergency call to the South East Coast Ambulance Service headquarters in Lewes in the early hours of November 29.

11 posted on 01/01/2009 8:22:58 AM PST by az_gila (AZ - need less democrats)
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Absolutely disgusting what Britain has turned into.
Unfortunately, a lot of people in the US want us to be more like them.
No thanks!

Unfortunately, it’s already here in the USA.
It just hasn’t fulling rolled downhill from Professors like Peter Singer
of Princeton U. to the average working Joe/Josephine.

Of course, Singer is something of a hypocrite...and it’s a good thing
his mother (afflicted with Alzheimers) is well-cared for by her son.
And Singer hasn’t (yet) decided his mum’s “quality of life” is so
low that she should be euthanized.


12 posted on 01/01/2009 8:24:14 AM PST by VOA
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Hip replacement? That is what deemed this poor soul to “not worthy of saving”? Poor thing.

If the elderly or disabled have no voice (family who looks after them), they are as good as dead.


13 posted on 01/01/2009 8:26:14 AM PST by NoGrayZone (Just Registered With the Conservative Party...RINO's can kiss my......)
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To: NoGrayZone
Universal Health Care coming to U.S. too!

Thanks Obama and dems! But of course federal and many state government employees are covered for life (w/COLA adjustments) under a different program than the average citizen can get or afford if we could buy it.

14 posted on 01/01/2009 8:26:39 AM PST by JSteff (It was ALL about SCOTUS. Most forget about that and may have doomed us for a generation or more.)
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“only that he was “disabled.”

Uhh, the article said he was complaining of chest pain! So what more did you think the story needed?

15 posted on 01/01/2009 8:28:45 AM PST by JSteff (It was ALL about SCOTUS. Most forget about that and may have doomed us for a generation or more.)
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To: NoGrayZone

When BO’s government “healthcare” is instituted this will be standard procedure.


16 posted on 01/01/2009 8:28:49 AM PST by G Larry (BarackÂ’s character has been molded by extremists)
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To: VOA; All

Terri Schiavo


17 posted on 01/01/2009 8:29:28 AM PST by NoGrayZone (Just Registered With the Conservative Party...RINO's can kiss my......)
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To: az_gila

So, not to detract from the horror of the story, but was he disabled or recovering from surgery? Because there is a big difference between the two, really.


18 posted on 01/01/2009 8:30:01 AM PST by bolobaby
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To: NoGrayZone
Once one group of people is determined to not have the right to life, it's not a real big step to deny that right to others who can be described as "useless eaters".

And it won't stop with just infants or the disabled, either.

19 posted on 01/01/2009 8:30:37 AM PST by GiovannaNicoletta
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Once one group of people is determined to not have the right to life, it's not a real big step to deny that right to others who can be described as "useless eaters".

That made me throw up just a little in my mouth. Truly sickening, but coming soon, if not here already.

20 posted on 01/01/2009 8:33:57 AM PST by NoGrayZone (Just Registered With the Conservative Party...RINO's can kiss my......)
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