Ambulance Accident
My neighbours son is a paramedic - someone else drives the ambulance while he's in the back keeping the patient alive. Unfortunately while racing to the hospital the driver rolled the ambulance - the paramedic is now facing spinal surgery due to his injuries.

Can't imagine any practical way he could have been protected and still able to do his job, short of all-encompassing air bags ala "Demolition Man".

No idea if the patient was conscious or not (or survived), would have been a nightmare for them considering they were already in bad enough shape to require speedy transport to hospital.
( ferret -> twitter.com/syfyautocorrect <-, Thu 16 May 2013, 13:52, 6 replies)

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( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 16 May 2013, 13:52, closed)

I Like This

( ferret -> twitter.com/syfyautocorrect <-, Thu 16 May 2013, 13:55, closed)

cheers

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 16 May 2013, 13:58, closed)

Weak :-/

( Turquoise Hexagon Sun has just dropped acid on, Thu 16 May 2013, 16:29, closed)

I saw this on the news
Hope he makes a full recovery: Paramedics are among the heroes of the modern world
(Carpe Cyprinidae, Fri 17 May 2013, 0:07, closed)

^
As are all those involved in healthcare, at all levels. No-one goes in at the bottom end for the pay, after all.
( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Fri 17 May 2013, 0:43, closed)