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Old 06-03-2020, 09:34 PM   #1612
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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger View Post
Just my personal experience, and a rant I’ve been on before, but Calgary Police have only ever been nice to me.

EMTs on the other hand have been worse than scum each of the 3 or 4 times I’ve had to dial 911 due to a medical emergency. This is over the course of about 10 years in Calgary and most cases I was the innocent bystander who dialled 911, helped the victim and then watched as EMTs showed up and were straight up abusive to the victims. Who by the way included a man who had just had a seizure for the first time in his life (they told me I was an idiot for correctly diagnosing that he had a seizure. Then they interrogated him for 20 minutes accusing him of being drunk/high despite a rather serious head injury from his fall), were weirdly abusive towards an old man who had a serious fall and was bleeding profusely from his face (and was on blood thinners, again I was told to shut up for mentioning it to them) and finally when I was assaulted and bleeding in the streets (literally), I asked the EMT to treat my wounds, they refused, threatened me with violence for wasting their time, took me to the hospital where they continued to loudly berate me for getting my ass beat in the middle of the night when I was the victim of a random beating. Oh yeah and then I got like 15 stitches in two places on my face.

So yeah, #### EMTs.

/rant

Interesting you say that, and when I posted that, I completely didn't think of my wife's experience with them.

I haven't had to deal with any, but my wife is an RN who has had to dealt with them for over 30 years. Her experiences have always been negative because they treat everyone else like they are incapable idiots. I asked her again and she said she could probably count good experiences with them on one hand.

A former colleague of mine was a volunteer fireperson in rural Alberta, and she has two sons that are both EMTs. I told her about my wife's experiences and to my shock she totally agreed with her. I think she said they refer to themselves as 'paragods' or something like that.
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