Southwest Ambulance

These men treated me like I was a criminal. I had a grand mal seizure in my place of work. These paramedics were EXTREMELY poorly trained in dealing with epilepsy. They had no idea how to talk to or handle a person recovering from a grand mal seizure. They manhandled me, there was four of these giant men and only one of me (a 100lb woman). They expected me to be able to speak immediately, and when I couldn't they treated me as if I was in trouble. The wouldn't let me lay down to rest, they forced a knee into my back to make me sit up. Even after I regained full awareness after only a couple of minutes and adamently refused to go with them, they strapped me to the stretcher and FORCED me to pay them and receive their poor medical care. One of their paremedics even admitted to me that they don't check Medic Alert bracelets. They wouldn't even let me go get my purse to take with me to the hospital.



They need to be trained by the epilepsy foundation and I will not pay them for medical "care" that they forced me take. It was nothing shy of kidnapping.