After Gary Hobish collapsed while swing-dancing with friends in Golden Gate Park Sunday, a fellow dancer raced to the nearby de Young Museum in search of a defibrillator. Most people in the group knew Hobish, 70, had a heart condition. Seconds counted.
Inside the museum, Tim O’Brien found himself pleading with a staff member to let him use the life-saving device, or to accompany him back to where Hobish, a legend of the Bay Area music scene, lay unconscious. O’Brien offered the museum staffer his wallet and his watch as collateral.
The museum staffer checked with his boss, but the answer was firm: The de Young defibrillator could not leave the building.
O’Brien sprinted empty handed back to the group, where a doctor who had luckily been on the scene was administering CPR. Paramedics arrived a few minutes later, but by then nearly 10 minutes had gone by, O’Brien said.
But I’m sure it wouldn’t interest anybody outside of a small circle of friends
You should be ashamed of calling yourself a medical professional.
Besides your obvious lack of any empathy, you also seem to have very little knowledge of what first aid equipment does and why it’s a good thing to have them around.
These kind of defibrillators actually assist civilians in performing CPR and are almost fully automated. What sad excuse for a “professional” does not know this?
Glad people are correcting the record, there’s a possibility I could end up with that condition and even though I’ve taken basic CPR/First Aid for civilians their comment still made me go, Oh shit, really?