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Originally Posted by Mirajj
The problems I have with random folks just jumping in and helping are two fold. First, if you think you know what you are doing, and try to help and make the situation worse, you can become a target of a lawsuit as well.There are all sorts of funky laws that start to apply in weird ways about helping someone, conscious or unconscious, etc.
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http://www.canadianlawsite.ca/goodsamaritan.htm
You can't be sued.
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Originally Posted by Mirajj
Second, how many folks actually have useful, up-to-date medical aid training? I see a LOT of idiots in my daily travels, and the last thing I would want is someone who thinks they know what they are doing but who really doesn't try to 'help' me.
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Odds are pretty good that anyone who is willing to be a first responder at a trauma scene has completed at least basic first aid.
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Originally Posted by Mirajj
Also, what disturbed me a bit about this was that despite folks whipping out iPhones and Tweeting and the like...almost no one got the situational information right. How many different rides was it said to be? How many different injury/fatality totals? If folks can't keep their heads about them enough to read the name off the ride and count the folks on the floor, as it were, you don't want them doing more complicated things like trying to help. You just want them out of the way so the real helpers can do their thing.
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How many people who were posting information to be attention whores or to make themselves important? Those people probably wouldn't be first responders anyways.