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Wrong. We take them regardless of whether or not anything is wrong. It's actually a pretty bad situation. Due to liability issues, the policy is to do everything we can to convince the patient to let us take them to the hospital. If we left and something happened to them, even unrelated, we could be sued. Whether or not you have insurance doesn't affect our decision to transport you. But it matters a lot if you don't like having to pay hundreds of dollars out of pocket for what was essentially a cab ride.

Patients are allowed to refuse treatment and transport. But again, we have to try to convince them to go for a while. If that doesn't work, then we can let them sign a bunch of paperwork.

I graduated less than two weeks ago with a degree in history. I'd like to teach high school. My old high school principal told me if I can get a year or two of teaching middle school on my resume, I'll be a shoe-in for any high school gig after I get my masters. So, I'm getting ready to start teaching middle school social studies. The problem is I've had virtually no training or instruction on how to be a teacher.

Now here's my question: on the scale of 1 to "Piper Perri in the same room as Lexington Steele," how fucked am I?

Where? I was an EMT-I in Atlanta. This was the policy as explained to me by the company I worked for. Granted, that was 6-7 years ago. But I can't imagine the litigiousness of the average American has changed all that much.