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Two EMT First Responders May Lose Their License After Saving Man From Lethal Snake Bite
100 Percent Fed Up ^ | September 29, 2025 | Staff

Posted on 09/29/2025 12:04:57 PM PDT by Red Badger

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To: LukeL

Well I guess if you can work as a school superintendent while being illegal, then everyone can be a doctor?


41 posted on 09/29/2025 12:41:10 PM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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To: Publius

Did you read the article? It was at a zoo


42 posted on 09/29/2025 12:41:33 PM PDT by RWGinger
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To: Gen.Blather

And if they follow the “rules” and refused to give the anti-venom, they would be accused of letting the guy die. The zoo worker brought his own anti-venom… I’d freaking use it too, certifications (revenue source) be damned


43 posted on 09/29/2025 12:44:22 PM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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To: mdmathis6

Xlnt compromise. Better to get the venomous, and POISONOUS (if it bites your a**) mamba and release it under the table at the Kentucky Board of Emergency services meeting. Pandemonium ensues...


44 posted on 09/29/2025 12:45:09 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: Red Badger

Must be why we have all those exotics living in the Everglades… I hope they brought their licenses with them 😉


45 posted on 09/29/2025 12:45:12 PM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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To: Red Badger

Well if they want to be really even more stupid, why not take the ER doctor’s license for recommending treatment to someone he has never examined. And then charge the patient himself for taking the antidote snake serum in his pocket.


46 posted on 09/29/2025 12:45:26 PM PDT by Hattie
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To: Publius

He was on vacation. Or maybe an illegal immigrant?


47 posted on 09/29/2025 12:46:23 PM PDT by dforest
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To: Ben Dover

“Doc says you gonna die...”


48 posted on 09/29/2025 12:47:13 PM PDT by Mathews (I have faith Malachi is right!!! Any day now...)
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To: RWGinger

Reading the article is against a time-honored FReeper tradition.


49 posted on 09/29/2025 12:47:35 PM PDT by Publius
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To: Red Badger
Is this Massive’s district?
50 posted on 09/29/2025 12:48:34 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Matthew 24:32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, .........)
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To: Publius

Good one
Nicely done!


51 posted on 09/29/2025 12:51:05 PM PDT by RWGinger
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To: Publius

Not quite “honored” but must have been done by “every” poster, at least once, on FR.


52 posted on 09/29/2025 12:51:19 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: Gen.Blather

There was a presiding ER physician, the EMT’s were taking orders from, which in most states should provide the legal cover for these EMT’s operating under his orders. The EMT’s weren’t operating in a bubble as they may sometimes do when out of communications with a hospital. They were operating under a doctor’s directions and thus they were only the automatons extending thru themselves the doctor’s healing influence. Most states have laws allowing nurses and EMT’s to operate this way, especially under dire circumstances!

Also Mamba snakes aren’t a natural feature in Kentucky’s “wilderness” and thus it could be argued that even Kentucky’s “wilderness” certified EMT’s wouldn’t have been knowledgeable of Mamba snake anti-venin.


53 posted on 09/29/2025 12:52:03 PM PDT by mdmathis6 (A horrible historic indictment: Biden Democrats plunging the world into war to hide their crimes!)
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To: Red Badger

Common sense is not very common, especially among government bureaucrats who love to play “gotcha” games with people to justify their salaries.


54 posted on 09/29/2025 12:53:12 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: Red Badger

Common sense is not very common, especially among government bureaucrats who love to play “gotcha” games with people to justify their salaries.


55 posted on 09/29/2025 12:53:16 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: mdmathis6

Nothing personal....but stop being so logical and reasonable. It will offend the Kentucky “Bored” of Medical Emergency committee.


56 posted on 09/29/2025 12:55:26 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: Red Badger

When Emergency Medical Services demand that you get their approval before saving lives, then you can rest assured that they are no longer about Medical Services. The Entire KBEMS should be dismantled, if not sued personally into oblivion.


57 posted on 09/29/2025 12:56:07 PM PDT by Teacher317
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To: Getready

Your right...sigh! It must be that green blood in me!


58 posted on 09/29/2025 12:59:18 PM PDT by mdmathis6 (A horrible historic indictment: Biden Democrats plunging the world into war to hide their crimes!)
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To: Red Badger

If Governor Beshear doesn’t step in and clear up this FUBAR...

...if I was the victim Beshear’s political career would be OVER, along with any pol who refused to craft a bill to correct this FUBAR.

Off with their heads, so to speak.

smh


59 posted on 09/29/2025 1:03:46 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 "/!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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To: NorthMountain

It goes to scope of practice. EMT’s have a limited scope of practice. Do something beyond that and you are subject to discipline.

The article is wrong. Snake anti venom is not carried on an ambulance especially for something as exotic as a mamba which isn’t found in the wild in Kentucky.


60 posted on 09/29/2025 1:22:37 PM PDT by meatloaf
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