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sl8

(13,786 posts)
Mon Jan 16, 2023, 08:09 AM Jan 2023

Paramedics in Illinois charged with murder after patient dies

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/13/us/illinois-paramedics-charged-patient-dies/index.html

Paramedics in Illinois charged with murder after patient dies

By Andi Babineau, CNN
Updated 3:27 PM EST, Sat January 14, 2023

CNN

Two paramedics in Illinois are facing murder charges after a patient died of positional asphyxiation shortly after he was taken to a hospital in December, court documents say.

Peggy Finley, 44, and Peter Cadigan, 50, responded to a home in Springfield on December 18 after police requested medical assistance for a 911 caller who “was suffering hallucinations due to alcohol withdrawal,” according to a news release from the Springfield Police Department.

Body camera footage released by police shows Finley entering the home’s rear bedroom as one of the officers briefs her on the patient, Earl L. Moore, Jr.

Finley is heard yelling at Moore to get up and walk out to the ambulance. “You’re gonna have to walk ‘cause we ain’t carrying you!” she says. “I am seriously not in the mood for this dumb sh*t.”

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Paramedics in Illinois charged with murder after patient dies (Original Post) sl8 Jan 2023 OP
The tone of that EMT cyclonefence Jan 2023 #1
Omg! SheltieLover Jan 2023 #3
Wider than we'd like to think. 2naSalit Jan 2023 #4
Horrible people! SheltieLover Jan 2023 #2
This would make a great training film. multigraincracker Jan 2023 #5
And they had a stretcher! Outside!!! live love laugh Jan 2023 #6
I don't know much about paramedics or best practices for such. ShazzieB Jan 2023 #7
Truly appalling and a crime.... raising2moredems Jan 2023 #8

cyclonefence

(4,483 posts)
1. The tone of that EMT
Mon Jan 16, 2023, 08:21 AM
Jan 2023

exactly mirrors the guys who came for me when I went to the hospital for covid. I wonder how widespread this problem is.

ShazzieB

(16,412 posts)
7. I don't know much about paramedics or best practices for such.
Mon Jan 16, 2023, 02:59 PM
Jan 2023

But aren't they supposed to monitor the vital signs of a person being transported? If so, these two were negligent in multiple ways.

I'm sure it's no fun to deal with a detoxing drunk who may be hallucinating and whatever else, but alcoholism IS a disease, and their job is to safely transport sick people to a medical facility.

I would say, "If you don't want to do all aspects of your job properly, find a different line of work." But that advice would be too late for this pair.

raising2moredems

(639 posts)
8. Truly appalling and a crime....
Mon Jan 16, 2023, 09:11 PM
Jan 2023

I want to know why the cops allowed them to strap him face down? All need to be removed from their jobs.

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