Tuesday, March 29, 2011

** New York ambulance plows into house after avoiding car collision

** UK medic faces firing over saucy fundraising calendar

UNITED STATES NEWS

** A pair of Buffalo, New York medics ended up in hospital Friday, after plowing into a house when they swerved to avoid an oncoming car. The Buffalo News (March 26) said the noon hour incident played out when a west bound vehicle declined to yield to the EMS unit. Though the two medics were transported to hospital with undisclosed injuries, the car driver was apprehended and charged by police.

UNITED KINGDOM NEWS

** A Wigan paramedic is facing termination after he created a saucy calendar of his friends and colleagues to raise money for charity. Wigan Today (March 28) said practitioner Neil Dobson, 41, who sought to raise the funds for the North West Air Ambulance, is set shortly to go before a disciplinary hearing. According to the newspaper, Dobson used photos of his colleagues’ heads which he then grafted onto pictures of bathing suit clad models. By way of a trial run, he posted the calendar on the Internet. After a member of the public complained, EMS brass stepped in, accusing Dobson of bringing his service into disrepute.