Wednesday, December 22, 2010
** Ontario medic threatened by knife wielding man at call scene
** Scottish ambulance manager suspended after using paramedic vehicle to deliver drunken colleague to work
CANADA NEWS
** A Sudbury, Ontario man has been charged with threatening bodily harm after pulling a knife on a paramedic and threatening to cut him. The Sudbury Star (December 20) said the 2:50 p.m. incident, which took place Saturday, played out as the medic was at the Rainbow Centre shopping mall on an unrelated call. According to the newspaper, the man fled after menacing the practitioner. Police arrested him a short time later. He was carrying two knives and some marijuana. Along with the above mentioned charge, the suspect was also tagged with carrying a concealed weapon and drug possession.
UNITED KINGDOM NEWS
** Scottish paramedics in Glasgow are up in arms after their ambulance boss was suspended for using a paramedic car to pick up a drunken colleague. The Daily Record (John Ferguson/December 20) said Duty Manager Dougie Stobie, 50, who has worked EMS for years, was given his walking papers a few weeks after the October incident. According to the newspaper, Stobie sent the sole paramedic car at an east end station to pick up ambulance technician Mark Weir and deliver him to work. Weir, who was inebriated at the time, was almost immediately sent home because of his condition. Though Weir was not disciplined for the incident, Stobie was quickly suspended. A Scottish Ambulance Service spokesman said Stobie is under investigation for misuse of ambulance resources.
