Questions remain on paramedics, doctors

I'm deeply concerned and have some questions regarding your front page article "doctor helping or hindering?"

As stated, a Sun City-Huntley resident's golf cart went over a six-foot retaining wall into some bushes. How could a golf cart climb over a wall that size?

Also, since when does a doctor hinder a paramedic's treatment at the scene? The last time that I remember, a doctor's training could go in excess of nine years, whereas a paramedics training nowhere approaches that.

Somehow, we seem to have forgotten this little detail and. compounding the problem, we have to arrest the doctor for impeding this treatment by the paramedic.

I think as the article implied, the doctor was already treating the patient when the medical emergency staff and law enforcement arrived on the scene.

I think that we have to review all our procedures and practices in emergency situations and where do we designate authority? I think that there are additional questions that should be addressed.

Why would emergency personnel and police interfere with a medical doctor already on the scene and attending the injured? It just doesn't seem right, and "I'm just saying."

Gerald L. Heninger

Mount Prospect