I’ve been doing this DT4EMS culture change movement for nearly 20 years, and the one thing I can assure you is…assaults are not really increasing. What we are witnessing is an increase in the recognition and ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of criminal assaults on staff. Rise in Assaults? from Kip Teitsort on Vimeo. With this newly found acknowledgement, […]
Hey OSHA! Look here… Why don’t you help expose this “dirty little secret” like you did with BloodBorne Pathogens, crashes, back injures, slip/trip/fall hazards? Providers, take a moment and click these hyperlinks. There you can see the Pre-hospital Assault on Staff Log and the in-hospital Assault on Staff Log where we keep record of media […]
Various Articles, Interviews and Coverage of DT4EMS’ EVE The unexpected abuse of Indy’s ambulance workers — and what’s being done about it A woman twice the size and half the age of paramedic Linda Hodge-McKinney, 60, struck out with a fist during a medical run. The woman — screaming and crying, refusing to answer questions — then […]
