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Old 4th Jul 2008, 14:01
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Gomer Pylot
 
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I've never seen anyone run to the aircraft. I've never even seen anyone consider running to the aircraft. At the speed most of us can run, you're only going to save a few seconds, so why bother? If the patient is going to die within 10 seconds, then the patient is going to die. Everybody dies. It's not worth killing more people in a futile attempt to save one.

We never land without having ground personnel secure an LZ, and we never start treating patients before the EMS personnel call for us. We have no legal standing for doing that, and it would be severely frowned upon. We're a private company, and only do transports when called by ground EMS or hospital personnel. Thus getting to the scene early is a waste of resources. I understand that it's different in much of Europe, and other countries of the world,but we're not in Europe or other countries of the world.
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