jordanfstop
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In my town there is an ambulance service you may all be aware of (Hatzolah [a VAS ran by Orthodox Jews.]) On Shabbos (the Sabbath) they pay non-Jewish drivers to drive their ambulances (I don't want to get into a debate of why they can drive their cars to the scene, but not the ambulance.) Basically the role of them (driver) is to wait around for a call, drive their car to the station, pick up the rig and take it to the scene where the EMTs will already be there in their POVs. The driver basically sits in the rig waiting for them to move the patient out of the house, opens any doors (that may involve using electricity) for them, drives the patient to the hospital, writes the PCR at the hospital, and drives the rig back to the station. The driver has minimal-to-no patient contact (and they mostly are speaking Yiddish to each other only.)
Now to the question, does the driver have any liability if pt tx goes against state protocol and the call gets called to court?
Now to the question, does the driver have any liability if pt tx goes against state protocol and the call gets called to court?
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