Nevertheless we collectively don't expect that road and car safety infrastructure should be limited to the front and back fenders on the cars themselves. And neither we even mention those as any notable safety equipment usually, despite each car carrying them. The main safety infrastructure in any industry is something external to the dangerous object. Car fender doesn't 100% protect a pedestrian from being hit and neither does a metal rail on the side of the road. But the effectiveness of both are "slightly" different.
Really? Where I live a patient is always able to refuse any medical procedure or treatment, unless they’re unconscious or otherwise mentally unable and the procedure is considered necessary to save their life. They certainly can opt for a non-ambulance transfer, though here it would be free even though a regular ambulance service typically isn’t.
Consent for treatment is a core principle of medical practice.
I think the idea is that if it's mandated, then the ambulance should be covered by some kind of insurance since it was medically necessary and not just Ol' Bob, the hypochondriac, calling because his tin foil hat fell off.
"inhibition fails" reminded me of this passage from Fear and Loathing.
"Ah, devil ether. It makes you behave like the village drunkard in some early Irish novel... total loss of all basic motor skills. Blurred vision, no balance, numb tongue. The mind recoils in horror, unable to communicate with the spinal column."
It’s worth noting that in neuro speak, inhibition does not necessarily correlate with what would appear to be a “dis/inhibited” person; it’s referring to a specific process where signals are blocked from propagating, and because the brain is made of a complex web of inter-modulatory loops, this can show up in unintuitive ways
e.g. signals from the default mode network getting in the way of task-oriented behavior, which can result in people appearing “inhibited” where in actuality they’re failing to inhibit irrelevant internal signals and (errant bottom-up) attention to them (this is the case in ADHD).
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