Paramedic pours blood on student

[webster44]

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I sure hope that they were joking around and using fake blood....

It would seem to me that a hospital would not be legally able to just give blood away....

 

[bigbaldguy]

Expired blood is treated as medical waste and incinerated. I'm calling BS on this one. Doesn't add up.

 

[MS Medic]

Here is a link to the actual story without the Huffington Post's dubious journalistic style. Its still a crazy situation but not it did not go quite the way the Post made it out.

http://www.statesman.com/news/local...ficials-2263365.html?cxtype=rss_ece_frontpage

 

[Aidey]

I can't figure out what the purpose of having the expired blood was.

 

[Handsome Robb]

If it's true that's ridiculous.

I want to know what was going through his head. Yes the blood is clean, but that's still so wrong on so many different levels.

 

[MS Medic]

The original story states that he poored some on himself as well. While I don't freak out about getting blood on me, I'm not going to poor any on myself either. Maybe that is a little telling.

 

[Aidey]

The second story says that he was putting it on a gauze pad and spilled it on both himself and the student.

 

[MS Medic]

Maybe I misread it but I thought it said he put the blood on the gauze and then applied the bloody gauze to the student and himself.

 

[Aidey]

...poured some of the blood onto gauze for the student's fake injury to make the wound look more realistic, he said. The paramedic then spilled some of the blood onto himself and the student's skin, he said.

I interpreted "spilled" to mean accidental, but the article doesn't actually specify if it was intentional or not.

 

[Fish]

Yes it was real blood, and deserves a what for?