I was the first one to help people out of a car that had overturned on the highway during the middle of the day. Several other people stopped but all they did was bunch up and gawk. I had to yell at them and I had to tell someone to call 911. I guy jogged up and said he was a paramedic but he just stopped in place. I yelled him to check for injuries. Why do these people even bother to get out of their cars if they can't help?
2006-11-17 05:04:40 · 12 answers · asked by Go! 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
They are interested in the accident and scared to help. They are idiots.
2006-11-17 05:07:49 · answer #1 · answered by Joe Somebody 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I fully agree with Medic1234, it's a bad idea to go into an overturned car that hasn't been stabilized. I'm sure the paramedic onscene knew better than to do that. He also may have been sizing up the scene, looking around to identify any hazards, etc. Just because he wasn't moving fast enough for you, doesn't mean he wasn't doing something. For future reference, unless the car is imminent danger of blowing up or is in a very unsafe situation, it's a bad idea to move people out of the car. There are safe ways of moving people out of a car, involving special collars and back boards, so the risk of possible spinal injury is minimal. If the patient has some kind of neck injury, moving them without the proper training and equipment can seriously injure or kill them. If you ever run across this situation again, just stay calm, don't yell at the paramedics :), call 911 or the local emergency number in your area and tell any injured people to lay still and not to move.
And paramedics are not required to help if they are off duty. No one (except maybe police officers, because they are sworn public servants) are required to help if off duty, whether volunteer or paid.
As far as bystanders that stop and gawk, well, a lot of them want to help but are either too scared to, or don't know how. Some of them indeed just want to look. It's a morbid fascination.
At my last MVA (motor vehicle accident), I had quite a crowd of bystanders just observing us as we extricated the patient. As long as they are not hurting anything or getting in the way, sometimes the best thing to do is to ignore them. Sometimes, if you give them a job (calling 911, flagging down another car, helping to hold a flashlight, etc) that makes them feel useful, and better yet, it gets them out from underfoot.
Hope this helps!
2006-11-19 05:46:23 · answer #2 · answered by rita_alabama 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Morbid fascination get everyone to stop. They stand around and gawk because as a rule, they don't know what to do. It takes years of training to handle situations like that without running around yelling at everyone and accomplishing little.
As a paramedic I probably would have slapped you upside the head and told you to get off my scene if you started yelling at me. If you encounter situations like this in the future, try staying calm and calling 911. You'll do more good that way than running around and yelling. Odds are the paramedic knew better than to crawl into an overturned car that had not yet been stabilized. He probably knew that doing something like that could very well add one more patient to the scene, and that's not doing the original patients any good.
2006-11-18 11:25:01 · answer #3 · answered by Medic123456789 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I've often wondered that myself. I have family in EMS, so I've learned a lot of first responder skills. I've not had to use the skills that I know basically yet, but I have watched a car flip before. I couldn't stop due to having a small child in the car, but if I could have, I would have stopped. I at least called in and gave them an exact number of how many times the car flipped, and that the two people were ejected. Amazingly they both lived, but ended up in jail for various reasons. :)
2006-11-17 05:10:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
sick interest...I literally had a woman slam on the brakes in front of me, right next to a cop standing the road, so she could see past him at the car in the bushes the other morning. I tooted my horn and the cop started yelling at her to keep it moving. She just ignored him for a good 30-45 seconds. Gheesus lady! you aren't the only person on the road!!!!!!!!! there was only 1 lane open and all she could do was just stop and stare. I wanted to so bad to just get out of my car and punch her in the face. How self absorbed must you be to gawk at others misfortunes to satisfy your own sick interest all the while tying up hundreds of other commuters trying to get to work and school?
2006-11-17 05:23:24 · answer #5 · answered by gypsy g 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had a car accident once, pretty minor, but people started slowing down to see what was up and when one of them got in an accident, in the opposing lane from us. The cops were pissed.
2006-11-17 05:10:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My first 12 months at a clean interest at a city waste water plant,we had an worker cave in on the pavement exterior from an epileptic seizure/and or heart attack.Of 15-20 people,i grew to become into the only one with CPR preparation and ordinary responder from my final interest.everybody else grew to become into in a panic,no longer understanding what to do.We moved him interior from the chilly and that i began chest compressions and mouth to mouth on my own.I had to tell somebody to call 911,then they left the room.i grew to become into no longer able to restore him,he grew to become into already subconscious whilst they got here upon him.It took 10-quarter-hour for the paramedics to reach,and that i grew to become into too drained to proceed in the previous they arrived(I actual have allergies).yet,it felt good to be waiting to assert I did all i ought to for him.the hearth station is 10 min or much less down the line.we've computerized Defibrillators at maximum interest websites.
2016-10-22 06:23:38 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Psychologists call it "car crash syndrome." People are too engrossed with gawking at the scene to actually help.
2006-11-17 05:30:36 · answer #8 · answered by . 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you. Of course, human beings are curious but if someone is in danger and/or needs help, if can't or won't help, get out of the way for someone who will and can! Your question sounds like nosy gawkers who want to see something bad and the worse the better which to me is sick.
2006-11-17 05:14:27 · answer #9 · answered by phyllis_gene_levy 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Human nature. (humans aren't too smart). They want to help, but haven't got a clue as to HOW...
No excuse for the "paramedic". They are REQUIRED to stop and render aid. He should have known what to do right away.
2006-11-17 08:42:43 · answer #10 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋