Comments on: Spin cycle: tasers in hospitals — who paid for the research? http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/26/spin-cycle-tasers-in-hospitals-who-paid-for-the-research/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:07:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Rudolf Strasser http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/26/spin-cycle-tasers-in-hospitals-who-paid-for-the-research/#comment-29779 Rudolf Strasser Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:14:04 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/26/spin-cycle-tasers-in-hospitals-who-paid-for-the-research/#comment-29779 Quite apart from the financial entanglements of the good doctor, may it not be possible, that tasers might save lives in the emergency ward. Mcuire or whatever his name was, might have used a taser, instead of his usually trusted Swiss army knife, to bring back a person from cardiac arrest. S o go for it, emergency staff. If you don't like that insane person,continually asking to see a doctor, while at the same time he or she is refusing to mop up the blood, pouring out of the knife inflictided chest wound, USE THE TASER. At the very least the person should stop complaining. The best of all outcomes would be him going into cardial arest.USE THE TASER AGAIN. There are 2 outcomes from this scene. He or she might be brought back from th brink of death and thank you for what you have done to save his/her life, grateful forever for saving his/her life and leaving you all of their misapopriated fortune orthe could sue you for using the taser in an unapropriate manner. So let's go and use tasers all over. They are after all the ultimate remedie to stop cops shooting people, armed with a kitchen knife or something the like. Being, at least supposedly, non-leathal,I find it hard to see, why this instrument would not be used as an instrument of torture-(let's give him anotherone, no-one will ever know). The world has turned around on us. Instead of the police protecting us from the socalled baddies, we seem to have to protect ourselves from the police. Quite apart from the financial entanglements of the good doctor, may it not be possible, that tasers might save lives in the emergency ward.
Mcuire or whatever his name was, might have used a taser, instead of his usually trusted Swiss army knife, to bring back a person from cardiac arrest.
S o go for it, emergency staff. If you don’t like that insane person,continually asking to see a doctor, while at the same time he or she is refusing to mop up the blood, pouring out of the knife inflictided chest wound, USE THE TASER. At the very least the person should stop complaining. The best of all outcomes would be him going into cardial arest.USE THE TASER AGAIN. There are 2 outcomes from this scene.
He or she might be brought back from th brink of death and thank you for what you have done to save his/her life, grateful forever for saving his/her life and leaving you all of their misapopriated fortune orthe could sue you for using the taser in an unapropriate manner.
So let’s go and use tasers all over. They are after all the ultimate remedie to stop cops shooting
people, armed with a kitchen knife or something the like.
Being, at least supposedly, non-leathal,I find it hard to see, why this instrument would not be
used as an instrument of torture-(let’s give him anotherone, no-one will ever know).
The world has turned around on us. Instead of the police protecting us from the socalled baddies, we seem to have to protect ourselves from the police.

]]> By: Gail Tuft http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/26/spin-cycle-tasers-in-hospitals-who-paid-for-the-research/#comment-29748 Gail Tuft Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:31:12 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/26/spin-cycle-tasers-in-hospitals-who-paid-for-the-research/#comment-29748 Taser International have sued medical examiners (similar to our forensic pathologists but with broader legal responsibilities) in the USA to prevent the of taser being noted as a cause of death. This means there is no way to track the real figures associated with the use of tasers. http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/05/02/20080502taser0503.html Most medical examiners are now reluctant to state that the use of tasers was the cause of death, effectively preventing any investigation of the behaviour of law enforcement agencies that use them. The paranoia of Taser International even extends to the internet and virtual worlds. They are proposing litigation against Second Life for virtual tasers http://techdirt.com/articles/20090421/1310304599.shtml Taser International have sued medical examiners (similar to our forensic pathologists but with broader legal responsibilities) in the USA to prevent the of taser being noted as a cause of death. This means there is no way to track the real figures associated with the use of tasers.
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/05/02/20080502taser0503.html

Most medical examiners are now reluctant to state that the use of tasers was the cause of death, effectively preventing any investigation of the behaviour of law enforcement agencies that use them.

The paranoia of Taser International even extends to the internet and virtual worlds. They are proposing litigation against Second Life for virtual tasers http://techdirt.com/articles/20090421/1310304599.shtml

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