[Joeaksa]

Originally posted by bigchillcar
wow, moses...that's a load of a burden for a doctor. hat's off to you for doing the job you did..and for the compassion she was given by you and your team.

joe: i concur completely. my toughest work as a lear captain was the air ambo gig flying the babies, etc. in the portable neo-natal unit. they didn't always make it no matter our efforts to get them there. bitterly, we often lost valuable time dealing with u.s. customs, particularly in miami, while the amblance was there and we had to wait for these a-holes to schlep our paperwork and documentation..
ryan

Ryan,

Agree and we found the worst on clearing customs on a medivac flight was the Russians. We picked up several people who were on deaths door and had to pass through Moscow outbound back to Germany or London and the idiots could have cared less if the patient was inconvenienced or not.

People where we picked up the patient could not believe that we were spending that kind of money to save one person. They asked if he was important (one was, one was not) and they just shook their heads, saying this would never happen under the Soviet system, that life was cheap and one person could be replaced by another cheaper than trying to save someone.

Sad to see and hope its gotten better.