Originally Posted by
Tyche
Unless your doctor friend is the chief of medicine or you live in some small rural community where everyone kinda knows everyone, it would be incredibly stupid and outright unethical to allow you to approach them. He should know better. If I was trying to help someone who didn't like the way I was doing that and that patient reported this outside of the correct protocols and a physician allowed the patient to breach protocol and approach me, I would have his ass hanged by our ethical committee.
Only thing I'm reading that ems maybe did wrong was not strap you in. Drug use in the situation they walked in on would be near the top of the differential. Those questions weren't out of line. Repeating them was not out of line. Also, no, you didn't need clothes on. They either just cut that off or take it off once you hit ER. Nothing I've read here would get anyone even reprimanded.
You have to understand ems is first on scene. They know nothing about
you or your history. They can't utilize information to critically think outside of the acute presentation. It's a young guy, tattooed, screaming. This isn't a common situation not involving illegal substances. They don't know your pain tolerance. They don't know what meds you take. They don't know if you're a rational actor and good historian.
They know they have a screaming young guy in a floor. They probably judged you, but ems should judge people. They were wrong. They def should have secured you. And maybe they could have had better manners, but nothing here seems intentionally malicious.
File a complaint with your patient advocate and see where that takes you.