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Originally Posted by chseagle
So even if the medical personnel say not to move the student-athlete, even though the parent does, that's ok?
What about the Hippocratic Oath?
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The WHAT??? Serious? I defy you to come up with anything remotely more irrelevant to this situation that the Hippocratric Oath. It's an OATH man!!! It's not regulatory, it's not law, and it has no weight in this situation at all. Legally, no EMT, paramedic, doctor, or any kind of medical professional has the authority to over rule the parent of a legal minor.
Yes, it's ok for a parent to move their child against the best advice of the medical personnel present. It's ok
legally, and that's a very different thing from it being the smartest thing to do. Moving a kid may be the worst thing to do, but it doesn't matter. It's the parents right to do as they choose. To the point of insisting on no treatment for a life threatning injurty or illness. A Medical Waiver form is intended ONLY to give permission for a minor to be treated in the absence of the parent's direct consent. In no way what so ever does a Consent Form give up a parents rights or authority to
anybody else. Any serious attempts to interpret this form as over-riding a parents authority is just asking for trouble- even if you're ethically or morally correct.
While I'm at it... standing in between a concerned parent and their injured child is not defusing or de-escalating a situation. It is certainly not good crowd management by any stretch. It would very likely have exactly the opposite effect of calming the situation, and would be a very dumb thing for you to do. If you step aside, nothing happens beyond perhaps some resentment from an over-zealous and miss guided rules nazi who should never be in charge of managing people. If you block the parents path, now you do have a potentially volatile situation which has been incited and escalated by you! Hell hath no fury greater than the concerned parent who is told to stay back. This could easily end up with you punched and the parent arrested; when all you needed to do was step aside like an intelligent person would do.