Convicted Felon Certified as California EMT

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Convicted Felon Certified as California EMT

http://www.emsresponder.com/features/article.jsp?id=9571&siteSection=6

Heidi Ortiz, I-Team Producer
Story by 10News.com

SAN DIEGO --

You depend on them when there’s a crisis; Emergency Medical Technicians or EMTs.

They can make the difference between life and death. Two year old Hailey Williams needed an EMT when her life was cut short in a shocking death. The little girl with Down syndrome died at the hands of her mother’s fiancé, Jesse Thrush, a sheriff’s deputy in Twin Falls County Idaho at the time.

“Thrush had in fact shaken Hailey Williams and thrown her on a bed and after hitting the bed she fell on the floor,” said a Twin Falls Police Captain during a press conference in 1999.

Thrush pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter. He could have served six years in prison, but was paroled after nine months. Thrush moved to Escondido and the I-Team learned the ex -sheriff’s deputy found a new profession, as an EMT. He was certified last March.

“That’s my decision,” said Dr. Bruce Haynes

Dr. Haynes is the Medical Director of Emergency Medical Services. It’s his job to certify EMTs in the county.
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Have fun Riverside. You can have him.


Cheers,
Orange County.


[note for people not from the area. Haynes used to be the medical director for Orange County. At least OC is taking baby steps to become a member of the 80's and 90's.]
 
Riverside?

According to the article he's in San Diego....
 
You have got to be kidding me.
 
Sapphyre said:
Riverside?

According to the article he's in San Diego....
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Sorry about that. I was googling it to make sure and for some reason he came up as a medical director in Riverside as well...
 
Thought CA was doing background checks now?
 
Yeah, forgot how screwed up they are. Let's not let the state deal with the cert's. Let's let every Joe blow Dr decide. That is great, considering most Medical directors are Doc in the Box types. You pay them and they sign anything you want!
 
Ah, the legislators finally take a look at EMS, but only when a baby shaker gets their attention. Never mind the fact that LA county Paramedics probably kill patients each year that could have been saved.

Now legislative time will be wasted banning felon EMT certification when it could be better spent upping educational requirements.
 
This slightly worries me.
 
I dont agree with allowing a Felon into medical services regardless of their crime.

If this guy cant deal with a innocent crying toddler, thus throwing her and killing her, then how the heck is he going to deal with a patient with dementia or phantom pains?
 
Wow, that's really scary. Imagine the lawsuit when/if he mishandles a child during his EMS duties. The attorneys will go after him, his service, the medical director, the hospital, and the county. Is California that desperate for EMTs?
 
no, we're not that desperate.
 
Even more wow, then, if California isn't desperate for EMTs. What on earth is that medical director thinking? Just doesn't seem worth the risk to patients and licenses.
 
Haynes isn't exactly the best med director out there.
 
nibejeebies said:
I dont agree with allowing a Felon into medical services regardless of their crime.
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Yeah, God forbid that someone convicted of tearing tags off of mattresses be allowed around actual hospital linen! :rolleyes:
 
Convicted felons are great EMTs!! This guy is good with beds and really knows how to treat women.
 
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