by Ent » Thu 29 Mar, 2012 11:26 am
Hi
Um? The things you stumble across when researching a wilderness wander that had piqued my interest on another thread. Then I find some people have been head kicking the young, and factually incorrect as well with some of their comments.
It is never easy call to make when troubling emergency services and I for one believe that we should support people, especially the young, when they have to make a judgement call, not make the "playstation" hogwash and such garbage comments. In all very disappointing standard of medical-related comments (did not realise that we had so many qualified medical doctors on the site) posters should be of an age to support the young, not trash them.
The fact that 000 chose the means of assistance suggests that they had their concerns. There is standard filtering of calls and obviously they made a decision based on safety first, which they should do. What needs to be considered is a coronal inquest recently was highly critical of a glib 000 operator whose inactions resulted in a young person dying from dehydration. I can see we have a few posters that are equally a glib and disinterested in young lives.
Anyway congratulations to the young hiker and I hope that when you are faced with the uncertainty of a medical condition you not dissuade from been proactive in seeking help by the comments made by some. Hopefully, 000 might be able to assist in establishing the severity of the condition and at the end of the day it is their call what they do.
Regards
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