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I picked an old man up off the floor a few years back. He was on his way to buy a bottle of whiskey. Must have been about 80 odd years old. I sat him on a wall and i could smell he had a few. He pleaded with me to go and get him a bottle from the off licence about 200 yards away. He didn't know me but was desperate enough to give me his money and take a chance. I refused and helped him back to his house. He lived alone.There i changed my mind and went and got him his bottle of whiskey. He was really happy at that moment.
A number of years back I saw a motorcyclist knocked off his bike as a foreign lorry driver was turning right into a side road across his path. The driver couldn't see him from the left hand side of the cab and drove straight into the biker.
As I witnessed the accident I felt obliged to stop and help but by the time I'd turned the car around (it was right by a roundabout so hardly any time at all) and got back to the scene there were loads of people already helping the guy on the ground.
Police turned up then an ambulance and the biker was clearly not badly hurt as neither he or the lorry were travelling very fast and he was up on his feet fairly quickly. Nobody seemed particularly bothered that I'd seen the accident happen and nobody wanted my details or my statement of what happened and in all honesty I felt like a fool for standing round so long just observing - I'm sure most people just thought I was a rubber-neck who'd stopped out of morbid curiosity.
So to answer the original question; I'd probably do nothing. If the people already there were taking care of the bloke and everything was in hand I'd probably leave them to it. I'd probably ask if they needed any help or an ambulance calling etc, but beyond that what else could I do except watch?
There is no 'H' in Aych, you know that don't you? ~ Wife
Turns out there is an H in Haych! ~ Sporky
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I understand that you'd think you could have done more, but it sounds as if you actually did as much as you could have done.
I realised then that I had no real idea of what to do in this event. I still did better than the young girl, who panicked and started crying and insisted that the boyfriend's gran was fine even though the old dear said her chest hurt. I put on my all-business voice and told the girl to call an ambulance immediately while I called the cops. The medics were there first and then the cops arrived and I dealt with them. The young girl meanwhile called her boyfriend, who was apparently a massive dick because I could hear him bollocking her over the phone from twenty yards away.
The old dear was fine, the cops sent me on my way and didn't even bother to breathalyse me because the accident was clearly not my fault.
On the OP subject, I think the question of an individual's responsibility in the event of a stranger's unexpected peril is philosophically interesting. Is it our duty as members of society to gain a degree of medical expertise to be drawn upon in the event we attend an accident such as the above, or are we trying to save ourselves future guilt in the event of a death we choose to believe we could have prevented? If we make this the default position, are we not risking exposing those who "merely" call an ambulance to accusations of negligence if they don't also volunteer to medically handle a dying person?
I don't have any answers, only questions.
fewer than 10% of people having a heart attack outside of hospital make it. According to resus.org.uk
There is no 'H' in Aych, you know that don't you? ~ Wife
Turns out there is an H in Haych! ~ Sporky
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But removing her bra and fondling her breasts wasn't strictly necessary for a leg injury.
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I knew a former paramedic and now First Aid trainer. He told me that for manual CPR without the aid of defibs / adrenaline shots etc he had "Played 4, won 1"
CPR is not very effective - but the point is, it is still better than nothing. I'd take a 1% increase chance of survival than none any day.
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