*Tea Is Important In Scotland: *But should it be this important
<http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/999-driver-keeps-job-after.6678382.jp>?
An ambulance driver who refused to respond to an emergency call in
which a woman died because he was on a tea break is to keep his job.
Owen McLauchlan, 23, was suspended from duty as a technician with
the Scottish Ambulance Service two months ago after he failed to
accept a call-out. Mandy Mathieson, 33, died after suffering a heart
attack only 800 yards from the ambulance station in the Speyside
village of Tomintoul.
To be fair, he might not have been able to save her even if he had
responded immediately, but he should have tried.
(I did a quick search on this story, trying to find more about the rules
governing these ambulance drivers. If this article
<http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/220912/-Tea-break-ambulance-man-keeps-job/>
is correct, a rule change in 2007 allowed ambulance crew to either be
available full time, and get paid a little extra, or to have guaranteed
half-hour breaks. McLauchlan chose the second..
That sounds like a weird compromise between a union and the actual
requirements of the job.)
- 8:19 AM, 4 January 2011 [link]
<http://www.seanet.com/%7Ejimxc/Politics/January2011_1.html#jrm9497>
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