After Gary Hobish collapsed while swing-dancing with friends in Golden Gate Park Sunday, a fellow dancer raced to the nearby de Young Museum in search of a defibrillator. Most people in the group knew Hobish, 70, had a heart condition. Seconds counted.

Inside the museum, Tim O’Brien found himself pleading with a staff member to let him use the life-saving device, or to accompany him back to where Hobish, a legend of the Bay Area music scene, lay unconscious. O’Brien offered the museum staffer his wallet and his watch as collateral.

The museum staffer checked with his boss, but the answer was firm: The de Young defibrillator could not leave the building.

O’Brien sprinted empty handed back to the group, where a doctor who had luckily been on the scene was administering CPR. Paramedics arrived a few minutes later, but by then nearly 10 minutes had gone by, O’Brien said.

But I'm sure it wouldn't interest anybody outside of a small circle of friends

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[–] ImmortanStalin@lemmygrad.ml 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This happens with healthcare policies too; you follow the policy to death vs break it to save a life.

[–] NeelixBiederman@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just watched that episode of Star Trek Voyager last night!

[–] ImmortanStalin@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which episode is this?

[–] NeelixBiederman@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Definitely season 7, I think ep 4. The Doctor gets abducted and sent to work on a planet that has a "social value" calculator that determines what level treatment everyone gets

[–] charly4994@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Oh hey that sounds like seeseepee china and nothing like the US.

[–] ImmortanStalin@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago

That's also the plot to Saw 6 lol