The Bureaucrats are mad the rules were not followed. Report: Kentucky paramedics face license loss after administering lifesaving antivenom
Guy doing research with venomous snakes gets bitten. He is going to die, but the paramedics have antivenom. They don't have the license that let's them use the antivenom. So, after saving this guy's life, they are threatened with having their licenses revoked.
Despite saving Harrison's life, LEX 18 reports that the Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services (KBEMS) may revoke their licenses due to a technicality: only "wilderness paramedics" are authorized to administer antivenom. According to LEX 18, Barnes and his partner lacked this certification at the time of the incident.
How dare you not follow our rules! How dare you save that man's life. [In your best Gretta T. voice...] How dare you!
Jim Harrison, co-director of the Kentucky Reptile Zoo is happy to be alive. The paramedic said that it was an ethical decision.
But bureaucrats think differently than the average person. The most important thing in the world to a bureaucrat is protecting and expanding their power. And if you break their rules and get away with it, that is bad in the mind of a bureaucrat.
Hat tip to Miguel Gonzalez: I cannot deal with this much stupid.
This is the Emergency Medicine version of “I am the only one professional enough…”
I am Pro Life to the bone. People who save lives should not be punished.
ReplyDeleteHow is it that the paramedics had the juice but packed the certs to administer?
ReplyDeleteAnyway, sanity has gone out the window. That is the perspective of reasonable people. To the unreasonable, the degenerate bureaucrats, the paperwork must be complete before operations can commence. This even if a life hangs in the balance. The dummies likely do not value human life anyway.
It wasn't there private vehicle. It was also used by other people with other certs.
DeleteBureaucrats value their place in the chain of command, and the power of red tape.
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