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"Poor experience with paramedics in Camden"

About: London Ambulance Service NHS Trust

(as the patient),

I am an autistic female Who also suffers from MH conditions. On Saturday I was treated by some paramedics in Camden high-street, I can only suggest i had been spiked via a bottle of water  I accepted from a stranger because I wasn’t feeling well. This rendered me barely able to move or stay awake. I felt that they assumed that I was drunk and uncooperative.

The staff seemed more worried about the sheets in their van as I had thrown up all over myself. one of the paramedics  told me -you better not throw up on the sheets-whilst in the van they  also told me to clean up my own vomit and that I had gotten myself into the position I was in.

I managed to mutter the words “I’m sorry” and one of them said -you did this to yourself.  They also kept telling me to stop being stupid and help my friend out instead of letting her look after me. They told her not to help me take my coat off and to do it myself when I physically did not have the strength. When getting off the ambulance one of the paramedics swore as some vomit had gotten on the sheets and yanked me by my shirt out of the bed onto a wheelchair. My friend was with me and witnessed the whole thing. I understand that paramedics go through long, stressful horrible days sometimes but this ordeal has left me feeling violated and unsafe like I can’t put trust in this service, and I wouldn’t want anyone in my family to go through this horrible experience on top of being spiked unknowingly.

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