Wife who asked to be beside her dying husband in ambulance says crew left her on side of road. Questions about care after Maine skiing accident.
Click here to follow STATter911.com on Facebook (hit "like")
A woman from Canada is telling her story after her husband died following a skiing accident at Sugarloaf Ski Resort in Maine on Thursday. Her complaint is with Northstar Ambulance Service from Franklin Memorial Hospital in Farmington. She says the ambulance crew left her on the side of the road and drove away. A hospital spokesman told Herald News they had not received a complaint but would investigate if and when they receive one from the family.
The wife of a Kingston, Nova Scotia man who died during a ski trip in Maine says she'll never forget the feeling of watching the ambulance with her dying husband in it drive away without her.
Dana Morse's husband, David, crashed into a tree while skiing on Thursday and died in the ambulance on the way to hospital.
Morse, who is a nurse practitioner, tells The Chronicle Herald the paramedics who arrived at the ski resort after the accident didn't have stethoscopes, never took her husband's blood pressure and took a long time to get an IV started.
About half a kilometre into the journey, fearing her husband would die, she asked the driver to let her sit in the back with him so she could hold his hand.
Instead, the driver let her out on the side of the road and drove away.
"He left me on the side of the road in a snowstorm, with me then chasing the ambulance screaming my head off to stop," she said. "Here I am, looking like a freaking lunatic, pulling cars over to ask them to help me."
Do you want to sell a vehicle? Click HERE to find out how with SellFireTrucks.com.
