Patient with chest pain refuses evaluation amid confusion, Burleson TX
Medical EmergencyEmergency responders attended a person experiencing chest pain near Southwest Thomas Street. The patient was reported stable but refused medical evaluation. Several individuals at the scene impeded the responders' efforts and expressed uncertainty about whether they wanted medical help. The responders remained on site until the arriving ambulance.
Audio|Source: Johnson County Fire Departments
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Transcript:
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Engine 1 and medic 16 respond to chest pain near Southwest Thomas Street unit A.
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Engine 1 and medic 16 respond to chest pain near Southwest Thomas Street unit A.
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Cross streets are Northwest Newton Drive and Northwest Shoreline Drive.
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Respond on Channel 2.
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Ben?
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We back and Saris.
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We'll be responding, Meg 16.
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You can be available.
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All right. Thank you, boys.
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Mace. Count for direct, we're available.
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Alarm, Engine 77.
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Engine 77.
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Notify us when it's been five minutes since marked time of delivery.
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Racing.
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Question 72, you're responding.
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Can you move to 5A?
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Arm engine 77.
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77.
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You can cancel the second ambulance and careful.
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Bruce, we'll just regard the second ambulance.
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Be advised this is your five-minute mark.
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Receive, thank you.
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Quad E3 is on.
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Squad A3 on. Squad A3 on.
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Take one out.
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Medical one, show you on.
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You want to show you on.
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One. Inj1 at patient stable.
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Show you all at patient stable.
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Arm Engine 8, Correction Squad 83.
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Arm Squad 83.
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Arm Squad 83.
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Go ahead.
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Brown seen over at Cemetery and...
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They really don't want us to check her out and she doesn't want to be looked at or evaluated.
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So you want to relay that to CARFlight and see what they want to do.
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But they don't want us to evaluate this person or look at this person, so I guess we're going to be available.
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Okay, well, they called back a second time after they hung up on CARFlight.
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wanting to know if an ambulance was coming.
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So they're not being very clear about what their wants and needs are.
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Is there any way y'all can get them to sign off on them that they do not want medical?
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We've attempted to make contact and we've had about five or six individuals block us and tell us that they don't want us and but they want to make sure the ambulance is coming.
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So we're going to, I guess we'll stay until the ambulance gets here and figure that out.
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Ruthie, I stand by this man, I'll see if I can, you know, how far the ambulance is out.
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Great.
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Okay, it's 41 and they're 16 minutes out.
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Near SW Thomas St, Burleson, TX 76028
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