JoeEMT sent this:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10242/1083758-100.stm
This is where blogging about EMS gets a little hairy. My original post was more about me and my little hissy fit over an ER doctor who chose to ignore me. The real story was inside the post and it had nothing to do with me, as I’m finding out.
I hope the girl is okay, I’ll try to find out more. I also hope I haven’t crossed any legal or ethical lines by posting the story in the first place. Just for the record, the names, times and dates, as well as the entire event are all fabrication based on a call that may or may or may not have happened.
I was chastised recently for mentioning a patient that I had in 1988, who died in 1990. HIPAA wasn’t in effect then, and it’s hard to believe that confidentiality is required more than 20 years later.
Sometimes as medical professionals we skirt the line of saying what we want ans saying too much. I’ve found that changing some facts, or creating a collage patient is best for protecting everyone
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Jaxs