Those comments from the Paramedic "who does not wish to be named" have got to be made up. Either that or he only entered the job yesterday because he's just too enthusiastic about his job - no sane person wants to work 12 hour shifts with no break. And whats this about "not being allowed" to help anyone if you're on your break? He makes it sound like other ambulance services "opted out" of the directive so that they won't be held against their will on a break while some poor person dies just outside the door. And he makes it sound like the LAS are lazy and they're all going to take their break at exactly the same time and put a "DO NOT DISTURB" sign on the door and leave people to die. Surely the whole point of this is that your break time is protected which means there has to be other ambulance crews available to cover for you while you have your well deserved break of only 30 minutes. What's 30 minutes? Well said Vort1gern. Unfortunately some people believe this kind of fiction - the same people who have trouble realising that soaps are not real.