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Kip Teitsort, Founder
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Mental Preparation is as important as any physical skill you may possess. EVE trains 4 specific areas (hence the 4 in our name) Mental, Street, Media and Courtroom. I am not stating the provider here is guilty of criminal activity. I am using this as a training tool. Here are some things to think about regarding this case:
1) If you are claiming self-defense, you have to use skills that appear DEFENSIVE (which helps in the media and courtroom arenas)
2) At what point do you think “enough!” and back off- and let law enforcement restrain, then you move back in and treat?
3) Everyone has a button. Including seasoned EMS providers. Dirtbags practice on how to push them on cops. They use the same tactics on you.
4) Is Pain compliance (Slap) and grabbing someone by the neck (throat grabs may be viewed as lethal force) a recognized, acceptable form of “patient restraint”?
5) At what point does this person go from being a “patient” and become and attacker?
A few moments of mental practice can help you stay employed and out of jail. This is not the first provider arrested for assaulting a patient. Another was sentenced to a 12 year prison term.
I have said it a thousand times..... our situation is UNIQUE. What you think of as normal does not apply to us in the field of EMS. We are held to a different standard...... right or wrong.....that's the way it is in the court of public opinion.
Read what an attorney has blogged about the case below.
http://www.rockvillemdcriminaldefen...dly-assaulted-by-paramedic-in-baltimore.shtml
1) If you are claiming self-defense, you have to use skills that appear DEFENSIVE (which helps in the media and courtroom arenas)
2) At what point do you think “enough!” and back off- and let law enforcement restrain, then you move back in and treat?
3) Everyone has a button. Including seasoned EMS providers. Dirtbags practice on how to push them on cops. They use the same tactics on you.
4) Is Pain compliance (Slap) and grabbing someone by the neck (throat grabs may be viewed as lethal force) a recognized, acceptable form of “patient restraint”?
5) At what point does this person go from being a “patient” and become and attacker?
A few moments of mental practice can help you stay employed and out of jail. This is not the first provider arrested for assaulting a patient. Another was sentenced to a 12 year prison term.
I have said it a thousand times..... our situation is UNIQUE. What you think of as normal does not apply to us in the field of EMS. We are held to a different standard...... right or wrong.....that's the way it is in the court of public opinion.
Read what an attorney has blogged about the case below.
http://www.rockvillemdcriminaldefen...dly-assaulted-by-paramedic-in-baltimore.shtml
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