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Ms Davies, a paramedic for 10 years, praised hospital staff for trying to provide beds as soon as possible. She said Ambulance Victoria was investigating the taking of the photo and she had been interviewed as a witness. “In the photo of me in the Herald Sun, I am clearly attending to a patient who is being sick at the time so have been distressed to be accused of not caring for my patient ‌ and would not want my community to think I am unprofessional and not taking proper care of patients.â€? Ms Davies said the photo was misleading and “appears to be a smoke screen for the release of bad surgical waiting listâ€?. She believed Mr Davis “foolishly misledâ€? the public in the “stretcher shuffle beat-up in a district that affects the balance of power for the Liberalsâ€?. (The government is seen to be clinging to power with the support of independent Frankston MP Geoff Shaw). “The minister knows exactly how many stretchers were at Frankston emergency department that night,â€? Ms Davies said. He knew when they arrived, how closely together they arrived, when they were triaged and when those patients were allocated beds. “The minister also knows from viewing unedited footage of the evening that the number of stretchers was not manufactured and the view from the opposite angle showed even more stretchers than the footage he elected to cut and paste. “Mr Davis accused paramedics of
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Worried by photo: Ambulance paramedic Terry-Ann Davies at her Hastings home before driving to Rosebud for a 14-hour shift. Picture: Yanni
using patients as fodder yet he had no hesitation in showing the very same patients when it suited him and threw paramedics under the bus to boot. “The Premier now has a very hot potato about to land in his lap as his health minister has maligned paramedics in the Frankston area and used Frankston patients and families to at-
tack paramedics during wage negotiations at a time when a very vulnerable Geoff Shaw may wobble off his perch in the Frankston district, leaving the balance of power up for grabs. “The people of Frankston will ensure the Premier and any Liberal-backed candidate that stands pays the price of this deception.�
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