Father Faces Felony Charges For Rushing To Injured Daughter's Side

Exactly right....

You will NOT question the duly sworn 'badged' among us...
WE are your overlords....

Honey, you've got a lot to learn then.
Who's Honey?

almost crash your car into the an emergency helicopter

Yeah well I almost had sex with Britney Spears. When did we surrender our rights to see our family to government bureaucrats?

I never said the father should be arrested .. but from the article it sounds as though he was reckless and could have injuried more people

"The father is an anesthesiologist and probably had more medical training than the paramedics."

I also noted that the father is a doctor.
Police today are no longer the friendly civil servants
of the past, but now are more and more becoming jackbooted thugs.

Some of the know it alls just expect this guy to act like a machine.
No, not a machine. Just someone with sense enough not to panic. Someone with sense enough to let the emergency personnel tend to the patient when timely treatment could make the difference between life and death. It's a time when loved ones need to put off hysteria for the sake of the injured. I speak from experience.

And if they are successful in prosecution of the felony he would no longer be able to practice medicine

"The father is an anesthesiologist and probably had more medical training than the paramedics."

That was my first thought too, he probably did have more medical knowledge than anyone on the scene and he questioned their "authority". A lot of the doctors that I know are arrogant my nature, they are trained to be that way, so not sure if that was a factor.

Give the guy a break, he's a father. And since when do they call the parents at the scene of an accident?

And lastly, anesthesiologists make a lot of money. I wonder if anyone who decided to charge this guy was a little calculating, perhaps seeing a $$$ settlement?

after racing thru a snow storm to meet the helicopter that took our infant son to childrens hospital (on life support!), we were greeted by a huge and very mean nurse who demanded we leave the picu and call in to be admitted to the ward. frantic parents at 3am need better treatment than that.

unless this father prevented better care for his daughter, which it really doesnt sound like he did, give the guy a break.

do not mess with the police.

what about that, don't people get?

>>>...the 48 yr. old anesthesiologist...<<< This man is a doctor. He is the injured girl's father, and he was told by someone that his daughter was dying. How about some compassion and common sense for this family?

No, not a machine. Just someone with sense enough not to panic. Someone with sense enough to let the emergency personnel tend to the patient when timely treatment could make the difference between life and death. It's a time when loved ones need to put off hysteria for the sake of the injured. I speak from experience.

A loving father forcing his way through a crowd to be with his critically injured daughter is hardly "hysteria." It as natural and rational. Nothing in the story indicates he was disallowing emergency personnel from doing their jobs.

He merely pushed his way through the crowd, as I and millions of other fathers would, and in so doing he touched a LEO, so he was charged.

"Too bad his name isn't Patrick Kennedy."

Too bad Patrick Kennedy wasn't in the car instead of this poor girl.

In NY in the 70s the brand new good Samaritan law said that the senior medical person on the scene of a medical emergency has authority over all other personnel there, police, fire, ambulance, etc.. The father in question is listed as an anesthesiologist, which is an MD. In NY, at least under the law at the time I worked there, he could have told them to go take a flying leap and been within his rights. In fact he could have had them arrested for interfering with him.

In addition, an anesthesiologist isn't merely just another M.D. An anesthesiologist is the specialist that ICU's rely upon to stabilize their most critically injured patients.

Anesthesiologist/intensivists are perhaps the best qualified of all critical care physicians for this role by virtue of their extensive education and experience in physiology and pharmacology, airway management and nonsurgical invasive procedures. Patients progressing to critical illness often require the benefits that all of these skills bring. .......Thus the nature of our practice — vigilance, rapid assessment and aggressive intervention, coupled with our broad expertise in medical and surgical issues and a nearly ubiquitous physical presence — puts anesthesiologists, particularly those with critical care education, in a position to be the natural and best-equipped leaders for RRTs (Rapid Response Teams).

Jackbooted thugs don't like it if you run past them.

I would have done the same thing.
Listening to the voice of authority is not the most intelligent thing to do.

do not mess with the police. what about that, don't people get?

Read Phsstpok's Post 38.

That kind of thinking put a teenaged girl in her grave.

I drove an ambulance for a living in the NYC area in the 70s. There are a lot of "professional" cops and "emergency workers" who are way less about being professional and way more about being "in charge." We called them "Napoleons." It sounds to me like this is the case here. Yeah the father was out of line but I bet the cop was all about "I'm in charge here! You do what I say!"......In NY in the 70s the brand new good Samaritan law said that the senior medical person on the scene of a medical emergency has authority over all other personnel there, police, fire, ambulance, etc.. The father in question is listed as an anesthesiologist, which is an MD. In NY, at least under the law at the time I worked there, he could have told them to go take a flying leap and been within his rights. In fact he could have had them arrested for interfering with him. .........In addition to working the professional ambulance I also was one of the crew chiefs for the local volunteer ambulance. We got a call about a woman down in the small grocery store in "the village" section of town. We were there within 5 minutes and I started to assess the patient. She was out cold and I couldn't revive her, though her vitals were fine. The only cop on the scene told me to grab her legs and we'd drag her outside to get her out of the way. I refused and told him I was in charge of the patient and to stay out of my way. I had EMT training and I knew that he had failed his last advanced lifesaving course because I'd helped to teach it. I also knew about an incident at a local horse riding competition where he and some other local cops had moved a teen aged girl after she was injured (but conscious) without securing her neck, which was broken, and she died. This was before the ambulance arrived on scene. I wasn't on that crew and it all got hushed up, but it really pissed me off.

In addition, see my Post 75. As an anesthesiologist, that father had the most advanced critical life support skills of any M.D. that you could put into that situation.

If you were an anesthesiologist.......the M.D. specialty that ICU's rely upon to stabilize their most critical patients........and you were told that your daughter was dying, would you rush in to do everything you could to save her life or would you allow your daughter's life to depend on the skills of whatever paramedic happened to be there at the time?

If your daughter had fallen off a horse and the local cops were about to move her without securing her neck, what would you do?

Say to yourself, "Don't mess with the Police"?

That is exactly what the people at the riding accident scene did and now that teenaged girl is dead.

Swanson was charged with battery on a law enforcement officer and battery on an emergency medical care provider. He is free on $10,000 bond

To protect and serve.

Because it is not an interesting issue.

It seems interesting to everyone but you.

But even you were interested enough to click on the story and comment.

Next time, don't bother.