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Another thought to this occurs to me that, when a paramedic assesses a situation and the patient is coherent, how much of the patient's wishes is he/she supposed to consider? If there's a DNR (and many times it can't be found when needed, as in the case of my great-aunt, who was put on life-support after a fall because no one could locate her DNR instructions), then I would presume that paramedics would stop life-saving or life-prolonging stratagies. But what if the patient says 'no drugs', even if those drugs helped save his/her life? Then we come to something like this, where he wanted to not be given them until they got hold of his wife.
For those who are or were EMT's-would you then be obligated to make that contact if it was determined that nothing would progress until it's done?
Another question-is it normal for EMT's to visit with their patient or family afterwards? When I was taken by paramedics to the hospital, they later stopped by to see how I was faring, which I thought was a nice gesture.
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