Posted on 06/25/2015 12:39:16 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg
DETROIT (WDIV) -- The Detroit fire commissioner has fired an EMT who refused to help a baby when she was just minutes away from the home.
Commissioner Edsel Jenkins said Ann Marie Thomas's employment with the Detroit Fire Department has been terminated.
"Today, we conducted an appeals hearing, which Ms. Thomas requested. After reviewing all of the facts of this incident, I have determined that the appropriate course of action is to terminate Ms. Thomas' employment with the Detroit Fire Department effective immediately," said Jenkins in a statement released Wednesday.
A frantic supervisor ordered the veteran medic to get to the house where a baby was not breathing and her mother was calling for help. Thomas was just around the corner on her pervious run a few streets east. She refused to respond to the scene.
(Excerpt) Read more at jems.com ...
Autopsy should show if it was inevitable. The other consideration is that once a baby stops breathing it is very difficult to turn things around. The earlier you get there the better. She blew that out of the water.
My daughter just got her paramedic card. I guess she should go to Detroit, as there are some openings there!
Put seriously, the refer to her as an EMT, and a “ medic.” I am assuming she is a paramedic, but the story is not clear. Big difference between and EMT and a Paramedic.
I'm wondering if she didn't want to deal with white folks.
No. They hate their patients. I slipped on spilled soap in a grocery, the cart came back and cut my shin and I fell on the floor. Emt refused to help. Told me go home wash. Told him I was diabetic. Did not care. I am eighty. Did not care. Tucson.
Agreed.
After reading the full report, it looks like the partner was an EMT too. The partner was not fired or disciplined, apparently because Thomas (the fired one) was driving, and the partner was subordinate to Thomas. Apparently the partner pressed Thomas to respond, but she said no...
If I had been her partner, I would have gotten out of the SUV and ran the block to try to help the baby. But, I guess it would have been very difficult to fire the partner under these circumstances.
Watch the video. The mother was black. Only the mother and grandmother were there and one of them was doing CPR. This was not a hostile scene and dispatch told her that.
That’s the point I was about to make. The mother was already doing CPR, so the primary contribution an EMT could have made was to do it correctly, and with some of these folks that’s not a given. Nevertheless, she got the run, she’s obligated to take it.
Yup. I was an EMT for a while in New Jersey, and when I was first certified (~20 years ago), I was shocked at how lax the process was. Sure, there were written exams and practicals at the end of each unit and at the end of the course, but the people who administered the practicals would have passed anyone.
Obviously, the standards are a lot higher in NY state, as plenty fail here.
I took that statement to indicate it was a Muslim neighborhood, as there is a large Muslim presence in Detroit.
That's racist. Plus, words don't have meanings any more.
I would hope so (and for selfish reasons too, since I now live in NY).
The thing that got me was that plenty of people who passed our practicals failed the written test. Which was among the easiest tests I've ever taken. I would have hoped that the powers-that-be would have noticed that so many demonstrated idiots (people who failed the written test) were passing the practical portion of the test, but I guess not...
Why isn’t this murder?
Oh, that’s right. A woman has the right to kill children.
“How did she think this was going to play?”
Some people just don’t think things through to their logical conclusion. That, or she’d gotten away with so much else that she thought she was untouchable.
“you know how these families get”...
It sounds like she was afraid. Was this a violent neighborhood?
A foreshadowing of life, and death, under SCOTU-Scare.
Unfortunately you have to practice in order to be charged with malpractice. This is the result of a runaway Court system that allows lawsuits to gorge on the healthcare system. As an RN I am not obligated to help if I have no patient. The EMS law is the same. You can only be cited for MALpractice - if you did not give any care you can’t be sued for giving inadequate care. I know it sounds stupid but that is the law. As an EMS she worked for a company. By not responding to a call she committed an offense that was punishable by firing. The Company fired her. As unpalatable as I find this -it is the law.
Henry Ford is pretty much the reason Detroit is the way it is. I wish he could see it for himself.
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