Can you be done for drink driving in control of a wheelchair?
I’m sure you’d catch some kind of case.
Drink driving? Wouldn’t the Pepsi/Aquafina delivery van driver be in trouble if that was against the law?
Perhaps this news item will give Jamie some hope for pursuing the jerks who break the law.
Unless…Jamie, this wasn’t you, was it? Link.
Me too. Late, as in “passed away a long time ago.”
Have you seen his guns? He’s a competitive body builder. And like many is a capital “A” ass. Something about swelled muscles, swelled egos and swelled sense of importance going hand in hand.
I haven’t. I’m curious what he looks like.
Is he doing De Niro?
“They whacked him. They fuckin’ whacked him!” <sobs>
Please don’t kick me down the stairs:eek:! Other than that, I agree. Jamie is certainly not promoting respect for the disabled. There’s a difference between advocating for the disabled and going so far to the extreme as to encourage people to say “there goes another jerk in a wheelchair” whenever they someone in one.
Can the wheelchair dude from Ghost World also guest star on Curb Your Wheelchair?
Its how we say it over here. Stop repressing me.
I found a link which may answer your question and simultaneously reveal JamieMcGarry’s real identity:
(Blog Link) http://www.disaboomlive.com/Blogs/tiffiny/archive/2009/03/31/yes-you-can-get-a-dui-in-your-wheelchair.aspx
You’re right, he does state that it was malpractice. He claims that the doctor deliberately rejected the use of available technology, “He didn’t use the equipment, suffering from what I call the “God Complex”.”
Perhaps this is so. If there was a trial, and if a jury came to that conclusion, then yes, the doctor clearly should be blamed. And I am quite prepared to accept that possibility.
But another possibility is that circumstances in the OR were such as to either prevent use of this equipment, or to cause the surgical team to decide that its use would interfere with other, necessary, life saving efforts, or for some other reason was contraindicated.
If you have a hose with a leak in it, nothing is getting to the end of the hose because it’s all flowing out the leak. Putting on a clamp prevents loosing all that fluid, and really has no effect on the downstream end, which wasn’t receiving any fluid anyway.
And if perhaps there is another leak further downstream, putting an artificial pump on after the clamp just means that the fluid will all leak out at another location, and the far end of the hose still won’t get anything.
IANADoctor but I deal with trauma in wild animals every day. We make our best efforts and use all our professional skills, but sometimes the choices available are bad and worse, or horrible versus unknown. Given the nature of this surgery, and given that skilled surgical teams experience a high level of complications even when their best efforts are employed, I’m inclined to discount the statements of the person who cannot possibly be impartial.
Well, Jamie, if you didn’t know it before, anything you say on the Dope can and will be used against you (and likely in a very exaggerated way). As much as I agree with the douchiness of your behavior in previous threads, etc., I think it’s shitty for people to jump all over the whole alcohol/medical malpractice thing. That tendency to get a piece of info and go crazy with assumptions is one of the uglier things that happens here in the Pit.
I"m not going to post a link as I am not certain if that would run afoul of board rules. But a little googling should turn up some bodybuilding results with a picture or two.
Frankly I was surprised at first by the weight divisions these guys compete in. But that just illustrated my ignorance of being wheel chair bound. Just never considered what percentage of total body mass my legs constitute. With atrophied, or no legs at all, one’s weight is going to seem a little out of proportion to their upper body.
The guy seems to have found something he enjoys and I have total respect for him not letting the wheelchair get in the way. I can even sympathize, that for him losing access to his favorite gym has to really suck, doubly so for being a competitive bodybuilder. However, I think his personality and not his handicap are to blame.
Yeah, you only think that because you’re coked out of your mind.
In my Google toolbar I started typing in his name and by the time I got to “Jamie McG…” it was suggesting “Jamie McGarry Bodybuilder” and “Jamie McGarry Wheelchair”.
The below link may contain pictures - there’s a fair number of them, none of them captioned, some in a slideshow:
Why do they look spray-painted?
If you look through one of his threads, he posted a link to his facebook page.
Alright! I’m still in my late 20’s! Awesome!