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Walking home on Sunday morning (at 8am, 6 miles to go) after a BIG night out on Saturday, came accross a Land Cruiser LWB commercial, nose in the ditch, @rse in the air.
The occupants had been pulled out by non-first-aid trained people, but thankfully no-one was dead or crippled.
There was one man with a broken pelvis, another with a possible spinal injury - both of these were lying on their backs on the grass with no blankets/coats (despite 4 or 5 guys walking round with jackets on). There was another girl sitting in a passer-by's car - head injury, but not serious.
I've done lots of first aid courses and won team competitions in my youth (Red Cross for 5 years), and despite being perceived as nerdy in school for it, I'v always been proud that I've bothered to learn how to help people, which is what I did here - sent people back up to the event venue to get water for the casualties, pretty much demanded that anyone with jackets donate them, talked with each of the casualties and kept them comfortable & informed as to how their freinds were doing, kept a watch on their conditions and tried to get some idea of what happened (it was fairly obvious - 8am Sunday, 1/2 mile from a Biker Rally . . .)
The ambulance arrived and I started to give them some details, in which they seemed quite disinterested. When I told one of the crew that there was a girl in the back seat of the bystander's car (they'd been there maybe 2 minutes and hadn't spotted her), and that she had a head injury but that neither pupil was dilated, he said sarcastically, "are you a doctor?". I said no, first aid and walked away.
God bless the work these guys do, but do they have to be pr1cks?
Mark
The occupants had been pulled out by non-first-aid trained people, but thankfully no-one was dead or crippled.
There was one man with a broken pelvis, another with a possible spinal injury - both of these were lying on their backs on the grass with no blankets/coats (despite 4 or 5 guys walking round with jackets on). There was another girl sitting in a passer-by's car - head injury, but not serious.
I've done lots of first aid courses and won team competitions in my youth (Red Cross for 5 years), and despite being perceived as nerdy in school for it, I'v always been proud that I've bothered to learn how to help people, which is what I did here - sent people back up to the event venue to get water for the casualties, pretty much demanded that anyone with jackets donate them, talked with each of the casualties and kept them comfortable & informed as to how their freinds were doing, kept a watch on their conditions and tried to get some idea of what happened (it was fairly obvious - 8am Sunday, 1/2 mile from a Biker Rally . . .)
The ambulance arrived and I started to give them some details, in which they seemed quite disinterested. When I told one of the crew that there was a girl in the back seat of the bystander's car (they'd been there maybe 2 minutes and hadn't spotted her), and that she had a head injury but that neither pupil was dilated, he said sarcastically, "are you a doctor?". I said no, first aid and walked away.
God bless the work these guys do, but do they have to be pr1cks?
Mark
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to you for helping out, ya nerd 
This is'nt meant as justification for their actions or attitude but I have no doubt that they have encountered quite a few people at the scene of accidents who have made all sorts of wild claims as to their knowledge i.e I'm a doctor, and neglect to mention that they are actually a doctor of some arts based subject! It certainly does'nt justify sarcasm towards you and, unsurprisingly, most complaints against crews are about attitude 
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A positive attitude wont solve all your problems but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort!
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