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re: Anyone ever have their kid in ambulance from school?
Posted on 12/1/23 at 3:43 pm to redstickrick
Posted on 12/1/23 at 3:43 pm to redstickrick
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I think the EMT or ambulance operator or whoever has to get permission on the spot, absent a situation where it is not reasonable to obtain consent (alone unconscious victim, no way to contact family, etc.). Seems like since they called your wife they could have just as easily asked for consent for the ambulance ride.
Right. I mean, he was in pain in the moment. The only consent was a convo with a minor that went like "are you in pain. Ok, can we give you medicine to help?" I'm assuming they asked him anyway and why would he say no?
The ambulance was "necessary" to "monitor" him. This is all the paramedics, not the school. The school just called them.
And yes, the school had been in contact with my wife. It's not as though we were unresponsive or it was life threatening.
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I feel like you probably come out on top but always expensive and risky to fight stuff like this
For sure. I've gotten bills from the ER. Fine. I've not received anything from what happened prior to the ER with the paramedics/ambulance.
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Posted on 12/1/23 at 3:51 pm to ChunkyLover54
The good thing for you is that the school has little incentive to fight liability for the bill because they probably have a pretty big omnibus insurance policy to cover a range of shite including this. A relatively small ambulance ride is nothing compared to the gordon mckernan commercial level number that they have the policy to protect against. Maybe you should fight it? Also your school board rep might make it disappear with an email since they have some political skin in the game, if this is public school.
ETA: Your best bang for your buck is to email your school board rep, put on your best disappointed dad tone, and they will probably want to make this disappear before it gets on facebook with it. My thought... "I would never have consented to the narcotics for my kid if you had told us it would result in an unconsented ambulance ride." That way you're really arguing the narcotic instead of the ambulance ride, which they are probably more scared of a suit on the narcotics than the little ambulance bill. Then they pay the ambulance bill to make you go away and everyone is happy.
ETA: Your best bang for your buck is to email your school board rep, put on your best disappointed dad tone, and they will probably want to make this disappear before it gets on facebook with it. My thought... "I would never have consented to the narcotics for my kid if you had told us it would result in an unconsented ambulance ride." That way you're really arguing the narcotic instead of the ambulance ride, which they are probably more scared of a suit on the narcotics than the little ambulance bill. Then they pay the ambulance bill to make you go away and everyone is happy.
This post was edited on 12/1/23 at 3:56 pm
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