Agreed 110%. This wasn't a honest mistake or overlooked test, this was a flat out refusal of fucking basic care. Jesus. That poor family.

I hope they get their license revoked an is never given the chance to work with people again and also charged with negligent homicide.

Is this correct? I am truly asking a question. I know that hospitals (emergency rooms?) are required by law to treat patients (and that means stabilizing them which usually means “treat them and streat them”). Does that extend to ambulances and ambulance staff?

right?  this had to be straight up racism.  and it’s disgusting.  Fired and charged with negligent homicide should be the punishment, at the least.  this is heartbreaking.

Yeah but these medics bigoted beliefs are being reinforced the Bigot and Chief. They didn’t think she was human and worthy of their time. This poor woman and her poor family.

Fired!?  They should be charged with manslaughter if it can be proved their negligence led to her death. 

I’m fortunate in that my fiancé understands when I sneak off for a few minutes I either just need a few moments to myself. If I’m gone too long though, he tends to check in just to make sure I’m okay.

I think the normalization thing is so important. Part of the issue I had with my anxiety was that I didn’t know it was possible to feel another way. Sure, I couldn’t “calm down” on command, but I also didn’t really know what “calm” was. Of course I got twitchy when I had to sit still. I wasn’t used to it.

I’ve had social anxiety forever. It’s been generally managable and I’ve been working on overcoming it over the last few years, but several months ago I had my first anxiety attack. Luckily I was with a friend who saw I was in distress and helped me through it, but it was such a weird experience. It’s like my brain was…

I tend to find social gatherings an exhausting experience outside a very small group of friends who understand if I walk upstairs to ‘get away’ for 10 minutes to ‘reset’.