Patient dies after ambulance driver clocks out of work en route to the hospital!!
 

"A critically-ill patient died after a paramedic took a detour en route to hospital - so he could end his shift.

He drove his ambulance to a depot to swap over with another crew, insisting that he was already 15 minutes late clocking off."

SOurce

That's fucked up. I hope this driver gets arrested, and never find any work again.

This can't be real... Talk about lack of judgement.

crazy, at least it seems they are not making excuses for the employee as many companies would.

I am not sure how much of that story is embelished but it doesn't surprise me.

Should be charged with something... that has to be criminal.

prolly a lawyers field day for both sides

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negligent_homicide

Viva the US medical system LOL

That is unbelievable.

Erm, so ???

Shit happens. Especially in that kind of job. Imagine that was one of your family members that had died because of that ?!?!? :disgust

I don't believe it. If it is true, he is gonna be in some serious trouble from friends and family of the victim.

Absolutely absurd if true. Criminal charges definitely.

Sounds a bit fishy.

Read the story dipshit.

The driver should be charged for negligence. He's an emergency care worker who left his post in an urgent situation that quite possibly led to this guy's death.
WG

He has most likely been told that if he was overtime, he would get fired.

Lack of judgment but still.

Criminal negligence much?

Damn, that's pretty damn irresponsible.

Reading that article a commercial from a Dutch insurance company that popped into mind:

US? Look more closely... :2 cents:

This guy is lucky the British government is about to collapse or he would be public enemy number one in the UK press at the moment.

fucking shit, get the fucker in jail

fucking wrong

and if he actually got fired for overtime like you said he could sue them for so much money cause he does work in a industry where he would be justified to finish the call cause he was called on to serve.. That's like saying firefighters inside a burning building where they know people are inside should clock out on time and leave the burning building to go back to the firehouse to turn the fire truck over to the next shift..

This guy atleast needs to be fired and never work in any way in this line of field!

wtf :(

That is so fuck up and non human act from this idiot

He sounds like a Muslim so probably a terrorist i think this paramedic saved the secret service a lot of time.

Imagine if it was YOU. If it were me, I'd be pissed!

I am not quite sure what to say! :helpme

This is proof that some people work for the paycheck, and some work because they love and care about the work that they do.

That's disgusting. I hope the driver gets fired from his job and sued.

did anyone even catch this prt

"The couple's eldest son, Mohabbot Asghar, 39, a gas engineer, also from Stockton, was [b]in the ambulance with his father[b].
He said he was not aware of any delay in the ambulance getting to the hospital and insisted the paramedics were trying to save his father the entire journey."

sounds like they just swapped drivers as they drove by the depot. at first it may sound strange/evil/sick but follow this scenario.

The ambulance guy is getting off work and ready to check off for the day , on the way back to the depot he hears a call that is very close to where he is at , so to SAVE time , instead of letting another ambulance get the call he says " i'll grab the guy and swing by the depot to do a driver switch " , this may have actually SAVED time not wasted it. Mind you he could have both taken the call AND switched after but there is a procedure to follow for a very good reason. It's a very stressfull job like an airline pilot and they have set amounts of hours you can work so you are not a danger to others. The flipside might be he took the call went into overtime delivering him , got into an accident killing 4 people and we would all be asking why they let this ambulance driver work over the allottted hours set out to ensure driver safety.

his son sounds pretty pissed off

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The couple's eldest son, Mohabbot Asghar, 39, a gas engineer, also from Stockton, was in the ambulance with his father.
He said he was not aware of any delay in the ambulance getting to the hospital and insisted the paramedics were trying to save his father the entire journey.
He said: 'It's a procedural matter for the ambulance service.
'I am happy that they were working on my father all the way to the hospital. I was not aware of any delay.'

Hope he'll be severely punished. :Oh crap

Maybe he wasn't paying attention to where they were going and who was driving? His father was dying.

If it had been you, you'd be dead.

Well, at least he didn't beat the patient up like that other guy.

anyone seen the movie "bringing out the dead" Directed by Martin Scorsese. With Nicolas Cage it's based on a true story about a NYC paramedic

Stupid driver!

Interesting.


Thing is, the hospital was so damn close. Common sense says he should have just taken the patient there.


Well, you know what they say about no good deeds going unpunished.

With any luck this thing will be properly investigated and if it played out like you suggest, they'll cut the driver some slack.

The driver is sooo fucked