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Posted on 07/10/2022 4:57:01 PM PDT by xxqqzz
WAYNESBURG, Pa. - A 911 dispatcher has been charged with involuntary manslaughter after he failed to send an ambulance to a woman in rural Pennsylvania who was bleeding and incoherent and who died a day later, authorities said.
The dispatcher, Leon Price, 50, of Waynesburg, had indicated on a 911 call with the woman's daughter, Kelly D. Titchenell, that he would not send an ambulance to her mother, Diania L. Kronk, unless Kronk agreed to go to the hospital, according to a criminal complaint.
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May be his instructions, now someone is covering their own butt.
Given the way the gov’t and Modern Medicine currently work, it sounds like she died of COVID.
Refusal of medical services is a crime. Refusal of medical services resulting in death is going to be some sort of culpable homicide.
In this case the charge is manslaughter.
911 is a joke.
If that was your mother, wife or daughter you’d probably think a little different.
Years ago, I was a cop taking a job before work. Came upon and elderly lady that fell, face first, off her granddaughters Razor. I conscience and bleeding from the face.
Grabbed a cellphone from a passerby and called 911. We had unique identifiers if we were off-duty, which I gave to the 911 call taker. I asked for an ambulance and fire rescue, as facial wounds are bad because you tend to not stop bleeding.
She dispatched the fire department but refused an ambulance. The fire department did get an ambulance after they got there.
Not sure whatever happened, but I gave my name and number to the family in case t did go bad so I could testify against the dispatcher and the city I worked for.
911 is a joke.
That hasn't been my experience at all. I've found ambulance, fire and police to be extremely responsive when calling 911.
As a former police/fire/EMS dispatcher, you SEND. There’s so much wrong with this dispatcher’s handling of the call/situation ... I’ll just leave it at that.
And serve every day.
I doubt it, but it would be interesting to see. Usually the job of the dispatcher is to tale the call and send a unit, even if they think it is BS and let PD/FIRE/EMS figure it out. If it is misuse, then it can be reported to the PD for possible misuse of 911 enforcement action.
He has no authority to not send a requested ambulance
But for his actions the woman would still be alive
Let’s consolidate all health care into one government bureaucracy and make any alternative illegal.
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We hear so many stories of 911 dispatchers who won’t send help, hang up on callers, etc. This is the first time the dispatcher has NOT been a snotty black woman.
There must be more to the story.
From decades of public safety work call has the appearance of coming from a “frequent flyer” who may have abused the system by either considering EMS a taxi service or wanting a quick evaluation by the EMTs followed by a refusal to accept transport.
The dispatcher’s question leads me to suspect the latter.
Obviously this situation was a problem, but I just wonder if this is one of the frequent callers, and the dispatcher called the bluff? I get that it is not the dispatchers duty to make that decision, but may have been a case where he was trying to prevent some headache for the 1st responders.
I’m told by an E.M.T. friend that ambulance attendants, (in Illinois) may not take anyone against their will as long as they are lucid.
I wonder if this could be a “Boy Who Cried Wolf” analogy.
Many calls coming from the same address could result in a cynical response by someone tired of hearing of desperate emergencies from the same house which turned out not to be that.
Not the dispatchers job to decide to send or not send—frequent flies do die eventually or are hurt.
...said “he would not send an ambulance to her mother, Diania L. Kronk, unless Kronk agreed to go to the hospital, according to a criminal complaint.”
There must be some critical information missing. If Diania Kronk was in such bad shape she died the next day, why didn’t her daughter reply, “Heck yes, she’ll go to the hospital—she bleeding profusely”?
Is it possible that the district gets lots of calls (whether from the Kronks or just in general) with a dire story so an ambulance will deliver them a free house call for something non-emergency, then refuse the trip to the hospital they never needed in the first place? Tying up ambulances for non-emergencies steals resources potentially needed for real emergency cases. It doesn’t bother me for the dispatcher to try to ferret out the truth. If the caller insisted it was a real emergency, the dispatcher should have sent an ambulance.
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