This makes for easier reading. Terrible spelling has always been my most serious weaknes! Some of these comments are beginning to develop echoes of "the cult of personality"! Yes Tom 45 minutes is a long time to await a real ambulance, one capable of transporting the seriously ill patient to a place where she can get as you say better help than you were authorised to give. I take it this was not only Eid, but also the fifth of November, always a busy night. Due to this overburdening the poor patient got half an ambulance crew, and isn't she lucky her respiration didn’t suspend! I can easily visualise what a catastrophe that might have been. All those little bones might have got crushed in the controlled panic of the situation. If she had gone into full cardiac arrest, the older children would have had to take their turn performing weak compressions on her naked chest! That’s if the could have stood their ground in the first place. Half an ambulance is not enough! I can just imagine Mr Flaherty’s' reaction to this type of scenario, way back when he was a simple trainer of emergency personnel. "You've got to get them in", is what he would have said! Suboptimal is a life saving drug in the hands of Paramedics, but the treatment is best commenced in the calmness of the patients own home and soon as steady improvement is observed, the locus of treatment should be moved post haste to the mobile treatment centre, which is located in the back of an emergency ambulance. These patients and their relatives are in too many cases conned into accepting second best and a mockery of the orcon and professional standards. It would not be so bad if there were at least two professionals on scene, but for my tax and national insurance money, send me an ambulance every time! This all adds to your steadily increasing stress levels! Eat well and prosper