The other day my mother mentioned the house that blew up kitty corner to the house we had lived in for many years. It was nighttime when someone smelled gas and called the Police. They came and told everyone to get out and not long after that the house blew up. Apparently a gas main under the street and near the house had ruptured.

I was not living in our house at the time of the explosion but I recalled something else that occurred in that house years before. I was about nine years old at the time and it was late afternoon when I heard a siren approaching the neighborhood. I looked out the front window and saw a Police car pull up along side the house.

The Cop came flying out of his car and went running up to the back door and threw the door open and went inside. It did not look good and it wasn’t. (There was a lady that lived there with her two sons. She was also the owner when the house later blew up.)

Her younger son was about 15 and was friends with my older brother but I did not know him well. He had been cleaning his .22 rifle when he accidentally shot himself that afternoon. About a half hour after the Cop showed up a hearse pulled up to the house. I never understood why an ambulance didn’t come to take away the kid.

At any rate that house had it share of trauma.

 

Your area might have paramedic police. The Medicops respond to scene in their patrol cars and volunteer EMT-Basics bring the ambulance. If the medicop showed up and it was an obvious death (brain matter present, obvious massive blood loss, rigor, or 5 min. on a cardiac moniter with no activity) He would have just called the herse to transport the body. EMS is not allowed to transport DBs over county lines without coreners written permission.

 

Do Doctors have to render assistance in a life or death situation?

I was at a gym and went to use the bathroom which required me to walk along the pool. As I left the bathroom I heard a commotion in the pool. I helped to pull this young man out who had drowned. There were about six of us there and two guys started to do CPR. I said something about a Doctor and this guy standing there said he was a Doctor. He then asked if there was a mouth barrier nearby. The kid had some blood dripping out of his mouth and down his chin. I also had second thoughts about mouth to mouth but someone was doing it. Well the good Doc did not do a damn thing. The EMTs showed up and worked on the kid for about 20 minutes but he did not make it.

 

When I was in Junior High school I had a local paper delivery route. One evening there were fire trucks, ambulances, police and reporters all up and down the block and they were coming and going to one of the houses I delivered papers to.

I later learned that three members of the family had died from cyanide poisining in the Tylenol murders.

 

Yeah I remember that nasty business.

 

That's a sad story.

I don't want my good mood ruined.

 

It's and iffy situation. Most doctors are not trained in emergency medicine (besides their ER rotation as residents) Even some of the ER docs are useless out in the field. They usually do not like to get involved because they don't know what to do. Their training is specific to their environment. An ER. RNs are the same way. Here in MN EMTs and Paramedics have seniority out in the field over RNs. But since CPR in a skill that all medical professionals know, he should have rendered help. One person CPR isn't nearly as effective as 2 person CPR. I personally would have found barrier protection. First thing we are taught is to protect ourselves. I can't try to save a life when I have hep-c or HIV.

 

There was that woman in Seattle who offed her husband with cyanide and was free and clear. They rule natural causes and she collects the insurance money. But is she happy? No, she wants double indemnity so she puts cyanide in a bottle of pills at a store and kills a woman and then tells the authorities that she thinks that her husband was murdered and that they should exhume him. A little good detective work later and she got busted. Greedy Ho.

 

There were two people doing CPR on the guy. I did talk with a reporter later and told him I thought the Doc was a POS. What are the odds on reviving a drowning victim? I am thinking not that great.

 

It depends on how long his brain was without oxygen. Within 8-10 min. your brain cells begin to die. Sometimes you can revive them and get a heart rhythm back, but the brain has lost to many cells to fully function.

And it wasn't really the doctors fault. Its just not his specialty. People expect doctors to be able to cure everything. But once they have a specialty that's what they focus on. He was probably family practice or something similar. He doesn't have the skills to work on that patient. That's why your doctor will refer you to another specialty doctor if you have something different then a common infection or cold.

 

Yeah I guess the Doctor could have been a ear, nose and throat or who knows what. At least the other guys there gave it their best. Turned out the kid was 16 and exercising in the pool and could not swim. Somehow he had made it into the deep end.

 

Maybe it was this joker.....