Helmets; The Paramedics View

[I like Skol]

In my case it is .....

Just drunk I hope FF?

 

[w00hoo_kent]

Yes, a cyclist who chooses to not wear a plastic hat is not the same as a drunk or druggie.

You really think the plastic hat is what's going to make them grumpy about an injured cyclist? It's a lovely bridge, been in use every day. Beautiful plumage.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Just drunk I hope FF?

Today? Yes

 

[glenn forger]

Another thing, of course, is when you're being treated at the roadside you shouldn't really have to worry if the paramedic is going to blog about you as part of her misguided campaign. It's a serious breach of patient confidentiality.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

[QUOTE 3317707, member: 45"]She's taken the blog down just now. It may be coincidence, but 5 minutes ago I sent her the link to the news report of the incident and asked her whether she thought she had done enough to maintain confidentiality....[/QUOTE]

Superb! I'm almost tempted to add an applauding emoticon.

GC

 

[Markymark]

Page has been deleted.

Maybe the teddy bear should have had a helmet when it was thrown out of the pram.

 

[ianrauk]

Page has been deleted

Good.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Page has been deleted.

Too late!: http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...ngmypatients.co.uk/+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk


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[User6179]

Other page which is worse is still up .

Car drivers have their faults, as do pedestrians, but cyclists seem to be taking over the world without the skills and courtesy that cyclists on the continent have. They are a law unto themselves; they think that the Highway Code doesn't apply to them and cause endless crashes and traffic jams every single day.

 

[Markymark]

Of course, there is nothing to stop anyone from reporting 'Ella Shaw' to the police for passing herself off as a paramedic either...

Best find out if that's the case first though?

 

[glenn forger]

http://notsobigsociety.wordpress.com/2011/12/14/health-professionals-how-not-to-use-social-networks/

From comments:

On twitter I do grumble about patients but not specific ones. Like with my blog I use poetic licence. I always change age, sex, location of every patient I talk about and I never do it near to the time it happened. The section of my blog that you posted happened to years ago. The blog was inspired by 3 separate jobs and I make it perfectly clear in my bio that what I write about isn’t actually what happened. Its more a work of fiction inspired by reality.

She's been pulled up before, three years ago. She posts intimate details, and photographs, of patients.

That’s a summary dismissal and a Fitness to Practice hearing, right there. She's had a warning, and ignored it.

 

[Sods_Laur]

I don't think her blog does the LAS any favours tbh. She might think it's ' just venting ' but she needs to realise that in a professional job there is very little room for venting publicly.

I have read other Ambo blogs and this one stands out as pretty reactionary tbh.

 

[broadway]

"The reality of what this means in practice is graphically illustrated in an online diary — Trying My Patients — by a paramedic who writes under the pseudonym Ella Shaw and who works in an unnamed British city."

According to the mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...e-hospitals-die-waiting-crews-reach-them.html

 

[Markymark]

[QUOTE 3317844, member: 45"]It's not difficult to identify her. There's a photo on t'internet.[/QUOTE]
Where?

 

[glenn forger]

there's no need for photos or anything like that. She was warned, it was explained to her what is suitable for social media, she ignored the advice, now it's up to her employers.