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Well, he clearly lives near me because I saw him the other day. Looked a bit frail.
Actually it wasn't clear at all that you saw him near your house.
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This is a field where a surprising amount of progress is being made. People still tend to assume that CPR is mostly a token effort so bystanders feel like they're doing something. In reality, high quality CPR + rapid access to an AED can give just about any heart a fighting chance at beating again (assuming the underlying problem is transient or easily treatable... if your LAD cardiac artery is 100% occluded and half…
Does editing time out after a while? I'd never noticed that before.. Anyway... s/cardiac artery/coronary artery/
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Unfortunately, it may cost you quite a bit of time and money to convince said court that what you did was not grossly negligent should someone press the issue.
No one in their right mind would press the issue, lest it causes a chilling effect on bystanders attempting to help someone in need.
http://suite101.com/article/good-samaritan-risks-lawsuit---s...
And just for a twist:
http://abovethelaw.com/2011/08/lawsuit-of-the-day-good-samar...
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So do you practice what you preach and carry one of these with you where ever you go, or in your vehicle? If not then why do you feel the government should impose that on a business? Why not make a law that says every business has to have a trained EMT on site during business hours. I'm sure that would save even more lives...
We have that. In germany the Berufsgenossenschaft mandates that every company with more than 2 and up to 20 employees has at least 1 person trained in first aid on site. Companies larger than that need 5% - 10% of the personal trained, depending on what work is done. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfallverh%C3%BCtungsvorschrift...
See item 7 of http://www.paulgraham.com/america.html to know why I asked it.
He won't let us sell his cars. He believes that he's going to get better. He talks about it all the time. "As soon as I get better, we'll..."
It doesn't matter if one lives 20 years or until the heat death of the universe, everyone has the same experience. Death is unexpected and unwelcome. And completely inevitable.
My grandfather is 96, he's been on dialysis for nearly 2 years now. He has zero kidney function and a tumor that has literally taken the place of one of the kidneys. His mind is sharp and he's totally lucid. He won't let us sell his cars. He believes that he's going to get better. He talks about it all the time. "As soon as I get better, we'll..." It doesn't matter if one lives 20 years or until the heat death of the…
DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
Some time ago I came across an elderly man in some difficulty lying in the street in London. While waiting for an ambulance he 'died' (no heart beat, no respiration, no signs of life at all, blue lips and gums) and I immediately did CPR on him until the ambulance arrived. Months later I learnt that he survived. Any brush with death makes you seriously think about your own mortality. I know that watching this stranger…
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We have that. In germany the Berufsgenossenschaft mandates that every company with more than 2 and up to 20 employees has at least 1 person trained in first aid on site. Companies larger than that need 5% - 10% of the personal trained, depending on what work is done. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfallverh%C3%BCtungsvorschrift...
Right, and that is probably a negligible cost as you can get first aid training for free in a lot of places. The point is the op is advocating that businesses be required to buy expensive equipment that they themselves probably wouldn't be willing to spend the money on.
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What are the legalities involved here? If you attempt to help are you opening yourself up to potential blame and legal action? What about DNR wishes the person may or may not have, or religious beliefs?
Nobody wants to live in a world where people find a dying person laying on the floor and let him die because they're afraid of legal issues. The law protects you from such nonsense. Even if it didn't, in my opinion, no person worth a damn would allow that consideration to color their response.
EDIT: He added that if you do want to help, make sure you have witnesses that you're trying to help.