Comments on: US: Role of EMTs in executions criticized

By: tti

tti — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:50:50 +0000

Well said Editor sir.

By: Medichurtz

Medichurtz — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:46:20 +0000

I love this bit,

Quote” “The EMTs are not trained to give these drugs and, in my opinion, there’s no assurance they can do it properly,” said Dr. Jonathan Groner, trauma medical director at Nationwide Children’s Hospital.

“These drugs are way out of their scope, and there is risk of pain and suffering.”

Pain and suffering?? I thought they were being executed anyway? Why don’t they just give well over the max dose, then there won’t be any griping about scope, suffering or any other silly excuse to clip the wings of the yank tekkies. I’d rather have an experienced yank tekkies bringing forth deserved mortality than a 15 year-old-looking house officer who can’t cannulate for toffee instead preferring to try and blanket-stitch my ACF with a poxy 18 gauge before finally handing over to the nearest Paramedic who’s only going show the poor sod up first time…..

By: David

David — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:13:19 +0000

I guess the U.S EMS’s don’t follow the 3 P’s

By: Kev W

Kev W — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:08:40 +0000

Would you be stating the same facts if your family were wiped out by some crazed drug user ?
Its a job man !
Whether legal or not we dont know.
When in a court of law, we swear on the holy bible. Yet in the same bible it states ” An eye for an eye”.
The question then is: What is actually classed as legal ?
I suspect the executioner role is extra curriculum and should have remained a classified post !!

By: paramandy

paramandy — Fri, 22 May 2009 17:51:49 +0000

would like to know what the EMTs fee is – bet a hefty financial incentive is enough to sway certain EMS employees to perform the task…

By: Editor

Editor — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:25:34 +0000

This is without doubt one of the sickest things I’ve read in a very long time.

And I thought doing custody work is wrong!

The last paragraph is particularly awful:

FTA: “We have never used any doctors or nurses in the process, and we wouldn’t want to do that because it conflicts with any oath they have taken as it relates to preserving lives”

Thank goodness the UK does not ‘legally’ murder its citizens for any reason! Let’s hope we never do.