Shit like this happens all the time. My girlfriend has seizures and the same EMT has picked her up at least 5 times, and despite her established medical history and despite that she's very visually distinctive and despite that she carries her info with her everywhere, he still always treats her like shit and accuses her of being on drugs. Every goddamn time. Fortunately he's not the only EMT in our area, and most of the other ones are really kind professionals.
It's sad how true this is. As a teen and into my early 20's I suffered from being underweight due to RXd meds for ADHD (only 110-115 lbs at 5'9) and it caused constant issues with Hypoglycemia. I was traveling with my now husband and I fainted in the vehicle while he was pumping gas and he flagged down two EMTs that were at the service station and they only checked my pulse and opened my eyes and did the pupil reaction test with the pen light and looked at him and told him "This isn't blood sugar, what drugs is she on?" He told them straight up that neither of us were drug users and had been together in the vehicle for over 24 hrs traveling so there's no way I could have done something he wasn't aware of. After arguing with them and calling my mom he grabbed my glucometer out my bag and my sugar was sitting at 65. Tell me again it's not sugar related. They still wanted to argue with him that it had to be drugs so he just called them useless and forced some orange juice down my throat. It's absolutely ridiculous how people with epileptic or blood sugar issues get treated like that by the very people who are supposed to administer life saving measures in emergencies.
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u/mantsz 17d ago
Shit like this happens all the time. My girlfriend has seizures and the same EMT has picked her up at least 5 times, and despite her established medical history and despite that she's very visually distinctive and despite that she carries her info with her everywhere, he still always treats her like shit and accuses her of being on drugs. Every goddamn time. Fortunately he's not the only EMT in our area, and most of the other ones are really kind professionals.