Doctors and insurance while in Ambulance transfers..

Page 8 Sunday Star, 10th september 2006 As far as I know.. and this has been a subject of discussion often in my circles.. Doctors are not covered by any insurance while in the ambulance transfereing patient. We used to call it:" kalau Mati, mati katak la" Only the Ambulance driver is covered with insurance! I have had friends hurt while transfering patients , not badly hurt enough to be in newspapers, they got a few days MC .. thats all. One friend can't smell much anymore for the rest of his life.. Clarify my behind!! Show the black and white la!! Dr Chua also another one.. Baffled my ass!! Doctors accompany ill and critically injured patient all the time, every day, in the ambulance.. Make sure chua knows what happens in his department before he talks!! In his time, maybe a nurse was enough. But with so much litigation nowadays, (remember the boy who's hand died because of in ambulance care?) Tyres!! My wife's hospital: New Tyres put on a Kementrian kesihatan pajero today, next day, somebody had changed them to 4 old tyres.. (maybe this is rare but it happens) On paper, the pajero has new tyres, but in reality- old ones) Why is it.. we have to wait for bad things to happen before something gets corrected? Human Nature? Anyway.. for the record.. this doctor has passed away.. government support was not great, they gently ignored the case and pushed it to some small thing as seen in http://medicine.com.my/wp/?p=1463 Sad but true..