Elf Sternberg

Hmmm. Putting something in a seizing person's mouth is a really bad idea, generally speaking. I hope the bite will remind the station master to pay attention in his next first aid class.

The paramedics are paid and trained to assume the worst. I'm in EMT-I class right now, taught by working paramedics, and their attitude is "If we can talk you into going into the hospital, you should go there." Unspoken subtext: "Because I don't want to get sued."

Also, I can see how the urban paramedics would feel a bit strange about putting a seizure PT on a train ride, pumping up the response time considerably if something does go wrong. (I haven't pinned down anyone at Amtrak on this, but I believe the conductor radios the engineer, who contacts dispatch, and arranges for a trackside ambulance intercept. Of course, by that time you're out of town and dealing with a rural EMS service . . .)

Good job handling an obnoxious situation.