This might cheer you up...or not.
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Roger Gray failed to spot the woman's serious condition and told her she would have to wait hours at accident and emergency before seeing anyone, the Health Professions Council heard.
He then advised her and her husband to have a drink as it would "not hurt".
The woman, who was suffering stomach pains and had a history of low blood pressure, took herself to hospital the next morning but died two days later.
Two months later Gray told an MS sufferer that she "wasn't an emergency case" and that should have taken a taxi to hospital by taxi.
Gray was working for the South Central Ambulance Service in Aylesbury, Bucks at the time of the incidents in September and November 2006.
On September 8, 2006, he went to the home of a critically ill woman, referred to as PW, after her husband became increasingly concerned about her.
Reading from a statement the man, Mr W, told the HPC that she was grey in the face, dehydrated and her stomach pains were "unbearable".
When Gray arrived he told PW "she would have to relax her stomach as it was so rigid".
Although he mentioned taking her to hospital he warned her she may have to wait four or five hours at accident and emergency.
Mr W said: "My wife didn't want to go to hospital but I was unhappy he had given her the choice."
Mr W said the paramedic was about to leave when he asked if the couple enjoyed an evening drink.
"I said that we liked gin and orange and Mr Gray said: 'That will not hurt to minimise the pain'.
PW was taken to hospital and assessed the following day.
Doctors found that fluid was leaking into the stomach but did not know the cause.
Mr W phoned the hospital on September 11 but by this time police were on their way to him to break the news of his wife's death.
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But seriously. How responsible do you think this guy is? Should he go to prison for manslaughter?
I'm really not sure myself. probably not just because otherwise it would put undue pressure on those working as paramedics. But I dunno...this guy was pretty bad...
If your job is saving lives and youre so horribly bad at it that you kill people on accident should you go to prison for such? Would prison be effective?