Fifty or so years ago, I was trained as an Army Medical Corpsman.
Immediately after the course on how to perform
a battlefield emergency tracheotomy,
we were all taken aside and told NEVER to do that
in our civilian lives, lest we be sued into oblivion.
If it’s a loved one and they’re being asphyxiated in front of your eyes, you just gonna’ stand there and think..my trainer told me “never to do this in my civilian life....”?
The laws are usually 2 steps behind real situations. Just be very careful when bending them. Make sure there is no other option. Then one does what ones gotta’ do to try and save a life.
If someone is drowning in a lake , but the lake is off limits, you gonna’ try and rescue that person...or say...”well the lake is off limits ..tough sh*t, they shouldn’t have been in the lake”....?
I think some lame a** fire official in l.a. said she wouldn’t try and save an incapacitated person,who was too heavy for her to rescue, from a burning building cause “he shouldn’t have been there”
Tough choices ..
Yep. Also, you were treating fit, young men. We are treating diseased, aged, feeble, obese, out of shape people. The aggressive measures you could employ would kill most of our patients.