Re: [Offlist] Update - Given a Speeding Ticket in an Ambulance

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Then nursing isn't for you!

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> Update - Given a Speeding Ticket in an Ambulance

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> > >>>> To: texasems-l

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> > >>>> Date: Friday, January 14, 2011, 3:09 PM

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> > >>>> So after giving it more thought, probably time to cool off, and think

rationally, and reading all of your posts, and replaying in my mind the EVOC

classes that I have taught in the last 6 years, I realize that I was wrong in my

actions. I can hear myself repeatedly saying that we need to adhere to all

traffic laws while driving non-priority traffic, and even VFIS recommendation

for driving priority traffic is to adhere to the posted speed limit. It is not

easy to admit that I was wrong, even-though that little voice in the back of my

head is screaming, YES you are!!!

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> > >>>> I guess the biggest thing that I was surprised about with the whole

situation is this question: what happened to Professional Courtesy? This led me

to an entirely new thought. Maybe it is “US " the EMS community that is taking

advantage of this whole “Professional Courtesy” bit, by driving the way I was

driving and have been guilty of driving in the past. I know that when I arrived

to the EMS scene in the Houston Area in 1996, you did not see the number of

ambulances that you see on any given day driving around the streets of Houston.

Even if a small percentage of these ambulances are pushing the “Professional

Courtesy” envelope by speeding, reckless driving, or any other of the offenses

that could be imagined, it could only cause this type of response from an

officer of the law. I do not know about this officer, but I could have been the

3rd or 4th ambulance that had come by him while he was sitting on the side of

the road and " blew

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> > >>>> his doors off”. He could have had enough, and decided this is the only

way to get “US” all to slow down. Or

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