> “Would you give me a hand, sweetheart?”, she calmly asks, “Don’t touch her!” the bar manager snaps as I bend towards her. “You’re not allowed to touch her!” The woman blinks up at me, confused. “We have to call the care team — otherwise she could sue.”

As a paramedic, this galls me. As much as it galled me that many of these times, the "care team" (mostly LPNs) would call 911, for anything larger than a bandaid, or simple care tasks. Why? "Because of our policy/liability insurance", generally.

The worst part? Often the big sign out front. "Round the clock nursing care!" - and a bill to match.