'Celery paramedic' to learn fate
Paramedic to learn fate over 'celery incident'
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Wednesday, 10, Sep 2008 12:57
A paramedic accused of eating celery in a dying man's kitchen will learn if he is to be struck off next week.
Clive Greedy will appear before a conduct and competence hearing at the Health Professions Council in London on Monday.
The 46-year-old has already been sacked by Isle of Wight ambulance service over the incident in August 2006.
A colleague informed bosses that Mr Greedy had joked with an ambulance technician about cooking food with a defibrillator while attending an emergency call in the kitchen of a man suffering from a heart attack.
He then reportedly ate a stick of celery while colleagues attempted to revive the unnamed man, who died in hospital on the same day.
The Health Professions Council said Mr Greedy would appear at a hearing to respond to claims that "while the patient was being resuscitated by a colleague you: took a stick of celery from the patient’s kitchen and ate it [and] acted in an unprofessional manner while on duty".
Medical experts have noted that the heart attack victim may have heard the ambulance workers' alleged comments as hearing is one of the last senses to fail before death.