On the Telly
Posted on Thursday 2nd April 2009
I know it’s not “the done thing” to advertise, but I couldn’t let the opportunity for a little self-publicity pass.
Yesterday we were tasked as a rapid response to Snowtown where a mentally-disturbed man had injured a number of people. Two patients had been hit-and-run by the man’s pickup truck and he had also stabbed 2 women in the neck. We expected the worst and sent up two teams for urgent retrieval back to Adelaide. We ended up coming back with two patients in the helicopter, with the pedestrian trauma case being extremely unstable in flight.
The media followed us up there, and by the time we were loading the patients onto the helicopter for the return leg, the cameras were on us. I have to say I found the whole experience of having a television camera pointed at us quite intimidating. While I wanted to tell them to “<insert expletive> off”, we have to maintain a professional exterior and so had to remain mute. It was a little surprising how close they got, especially since shooting footage of injured people undergoing medical care is a breach of patient confidentiality.
Anyways, without further ado here is the link to the footage of the event, including a few shots of us unloading one of the patients from an ambulance and loading him onto the chopper.
