Houston — You have a newspaper!

By Calvin Palmer
The days between Christmas and the New Year are notorious for their lack of news.  Newspapers cut their pagination and look back on the events of the year and the personalities caught up in the news spotlight to fill the pages.
Since setting up this blog site in June, I have turned to newspapers [...]

Paramedics arrested for ‘not worth trying to save’ heart attack man

By Calvin Palmer
It used to be that skilled surgeons held the fate of people’s lives in their hands.  Now it appears that paramedics can determine whether someone lives or dies.
Two paramedics in Brighton, England, have been arrested after they were allegedly heard discussing whether they should bother to resuscitate a disabled man who had collapsed [...]