Not a question. I am interested in your thoughts and feelings about what a friend of mine told me to do last week.

He was visiting here the day before Thanksgiving, and had..."an episode" of some kind. He passed out after I got him onto my office chair, I rolled him (on the chair) over to the bed, and I had to lift him onto the bed. I hurt my back pretty badly. He lost control of himself, and had no memory at all of my moving him.

I thought about calling 911, but I didn't because I knew my friend would be really angry.

He assured me later that he would have been very angry if I had called 911, and that he never would have forgiven me. He said if it ever happens again, he is a DNR but he wears no bracelet advising EMTs that he is a DNR.

I have begun to worry about my legal liability. Another friend told me that it may have been a TIA or small stroke.

If my friend had died, I believe I might have been legally liable for not dialing 911 but I don't know for sure. And I am not authorized to convey any sort of DNR information to the EMTs if such a thing should happen again.

I am interested in hearing your thoughts.

SW-User

I mean, if you knew he was there and was in danger, you could be held responsible depending on where you're from. EMTs don't care for most jewellery or anything of the sort unless it's standardised, just like they don't care for tattoos that say "DNR". They need paperwork. If they don't have that paperwork, they're going to do whatever they can to keep that person alive.