School fails to call 911 after girl slices top of her finger

[King Ghidorah]

Amazing Johnson, 6, severed the top of her finger when it was accidentally caught in a door at school. Instead of calling 911, school officials only called her parents.

Latesha Coleman, Amazing's mother, received a call from Hughes Road Elementary administrators about her daughter's injury, but tells KRIV Fox 26 they downplayed just how severe the injury was. Coleman was told the "nurse was working with Amazing, that Amazing was fine...She's being loved on by the nurse."

Emergency medical help was not called, even as it became clear that Amazing was missing a piece of her finger.

In a prepared statement, Dickinson I.S.D. confirms Amazing lost the tip of her finger and that her parents were called to take her to the hospital. Had they not been able to reach Amazing's parents or if it were a life-threatening incident, 911 would have been called, Yahoo News reports.

Latesha Coleman arrived at the hospital where Amazing had been taken by her father to find him holding a bag, "and he had the tip of her pinky in the bag.”

Doctors were able to reattach Amazing's fingertip, but that does not dismiss the negligence Latesha Coleman feels the school displayed during the incident. She told KRIV Fox 26 that she spoke with the school's principal and asked, "Why didn't you call 911?" The response, "She didn't feel like it was an emergency." Coleman continues, "How is this not an emergency and her finger is in a bag...I'm thinking maybe a child has to be dead and that's the only way to call 911."

Other school districts in the area (Aldine ISD, Klein ISD, and Fort Bend ISD) reported to KRIV Fox 26 that 911 is called only at the discretion of the school nurse. If an event is believed to be a medical emergency 911 will be called, otherwise the child's parents are contacted.


Source: www.opposingviews.com/i/health/school-fails-call-911-when-six-year-old-amazing-johnson-severs-finger

[SOR]

Definitely should have called 911 but Nurses in schools usually have zero idea, at least in my country.

I remember this one time where I sewed a needle into my skin (Was using a machine) Anyone, I go to the Nurse who gives me a bandaid and sends me back to class. I needed stitches to sew it shut because it wouldn't stop bleeding.

If a finger is cut off that's a definite emergency though. Hopefully the mother sues.

[Jedi-El of Tomorrow]

Her name is Amazing?

Unless they're a white kid from New York, being raised by his aunt and uncle, that should be nobody's name.

[Sephiroth]

Dec 17, 2013 8:23:39 GMT -5 SOR said:

Definitely should have called 911 but Nurses in schools usually have zero idea, at least in my country.

I remember this one time where I sewed a needle into my skin (Was using a machine) Anyone, I go to the Nurse who gives me a bandaid and sends me back to class. I needed stitches to sew it shut because it wouldn't stop bleeding.

If a finger is cut off that's a definite emergency though. Hopefully the mother sues.

I remember going to my high school nurse's office once because I got hit full in the face with a baseball and had blood oozing out of my nose. The first thing she did was stick the thermometer in my ear and say "Huh, no temperature." That was their response to EVERYTHING.

[Push R Truth]

How to do you name a kid "Amazing Johnson"

At least if it was a boy it would be a full on "Joke Name", but it's not even a good joke since it's a girl. I feel sorry for her, and her finger.

[Stone Coke Miami Watson 🥃]

While I feel bad for her, and I hope her parents take corrective action over the school district for failing to follow proper protocol and dial 911, ummmm....

Amazing Johnson?? Really??

[BigWill]

I think Amazing's an awesome name.

[King Ghidorah]

Dec 17, 2013 10:31:38 GMT -5 BigWill said:

I think Amazing's an awesome name.

Would you call it.....an AMAZING name???

[Rumble McSkirmish]

Well maybe her name is why the school didn't call 911, they thought she was a stage magician and slicing of her fingertip was part of her act.

[Drillbit Taylor]

Eh its Dickinson....

[A Platypus Rave]

Dec 17, 2013 8:24:33 GMT -5 Jedi-El of Tomorrow said:

Her name is Amazing?

Amazing Johnson at that...

[mcmahonfan85]

sorry to everyone that feels otherwise, but i gotta side with the school. losing the tip of your finger is NOT a life threatening emergency nor would i deem it an emergency worthy of calling for an ambulance if you can get to the hospital via other means of transportation (i.e. someone, oh say, her parents, take her to emergency room). did the girl arrive in the hospital in "critical condition"? no. was she kept there overnight for observation? no. they took her there, the tip of her finger was reattached, and she went home. yes you can be upset your daughter got hurt, but don't get upset about the school not calling 911 over an emergency that doesn't warrant 911 called

[SOR]

Dec 17, 2013 12:40:36 GMT -5 mcmahonfan85 said:

sorry to everyone that feels otherwise, but i gotta side with the school. losing the tip of your finger is NOT a life threatening emergency nor would i deem it an emergency worthy of calling for an ambulance if you can get to the hospital via other means of transportation (i.e. someone, oh say, her parents, take her to emergency room). did the girl arrive in the hospital in "critical condition"? no. was she kept there overnight for observation? no. they took her there, the tip of her finger was reattached, and she went home. yes you can be upset your daughter got hurt, but don't get upset about the school not calling 911 over an emergency that doesn't warrant 911 called

- Loses a limb

- Not an emergency

- Okay.jpeg

[mcmahonfan85]

the tip of the finger is not a limb, nor is the loss of it an emergency justifying the need for an ambulance

if the accident occurred at her home with her parents there instead of at school, which do you honestly think would have happened: A) her parents call for a ambulance, or B) her parents take her to the emergency room themselves

[SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman]

Dec 17, 2013 12:40:36 GMT -5 mcmahonfan85 said:

sorry to everyone that feels otherwise, but i gotta side with the school. losing the tip of your finger is NOT a life threatening emergency nor would i deem it an emergency worthy of calling for an ambulance if you can get to the hospital via other means of transportation (i.e. someone, oh say, her parents, take her to emergency room). did the girl arrive in the hospital in "critical condition"? no. was she kept there overnight for observation? no. they took her there, the tip of her finger was reattached, and she went home. yes you can be upset your daughter got hurt, but don't get upset about the school not calling 911 over an emergency that doesn't warrant 911 called

"Not a life threatening emergency"?! Do you have any idea how much blood flows throw the vessels in the fingers? Losing a phalanx is gonna bleed a lot, very fast and certainly isn't going to stop until there's no blood left to bleed and being a child, she obviously has less blood than an adult, making the condition all the more threatening as shock and lack of oxygenation will set in that much faster. And don't get me started on the amount of hygiene issues, for the child from having a bleeding open wound which can easily get infected and for everyone else from having blood spray all over the place.
Of course they reattached it, because she was sent to a hospital. Because that's the only logical thing to do. All waiting will do is make the kid lose more blood and make it harder to reattach the missing part as it starts rotting, that's kind of what happens to things that are no longer part of a body, hence why organ transplants have to be done quickly after the death of the donor and why limbs such as, you know, a fingertip, need to be reattached as quickly as possible and why, yes, hospitals send ambulances for people who have lost body parts. Because it's serious regardless of what part is missing.

[mcmahonfan85]

Dec 17, 2013 13:38:24 GMT -5 SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman said:

Dec 17, 2013 12:40:36 GMT -5 mcmahonfan85 said:

sorry to everyone that feels otherwise, but i gotta side with the school. losing the tip of your finger is NOT a life threatening emergency nor would i deem it an emergency worthy of calling for an ambulance if you can get to the hospital via other means of transportation (i.e. someone, oh say, her parents, take her to emergency room). did the girl arrive in the hospital in "critical condition"? no. was she kept there overnight for observation? no. they took her there, the tip of her finger was reattached, and she went home. yes you can be upset your daughter got hurt, but don't get upset about the school not calling 911 over an emergency that doesn't warrant 911 called

"Not a life threatening emergency"?! Do you have any idea how much blood flows throw the vessels in the fingers? Losing a phalanx is gonna bleed a lot, very fast and certainly isn't going to stop until there's no blood left to bleed and being a child, she obviously has less blood than an adult, making the condition all the more threatening as shock and lack of oxygenation will set in that much faster. And don't get me started on the amount of hygiene issues, for the child from having a bleeding open wound which can easily get infected and for everyone else from having blood spray all over the place.
Of course they reattached it, because she was sent to a hospital. Because that's the only logical thing to do. All waiting will do is make the kid lose more blood and make it harder to reattach the missing part as it starts rotting, that's kind of what happens to things that are no longer part of a body, hence why organ transplants have to be done quickly after the death of the donor and why limbs such as, you know, a fingertip, need to be reattached as quickly as possible and why, yes, hospitals send ambulances for people who have lost body parts. Because it's serious regardless of what part is missing.

excuse me, but where did i say "don't take her to get the tip of her finger reattached"? yes they took her to the hospital, because the emergency room is AT the hospital. and anyone that has worked at a hospital, or a doctor's office, or a medic/corpsman in the military, or any other part the medical profession will tell you there are varying levels of injury, and the loss of the end of the finger (not the whole finger by the way) is not on the same level as say a gunshot or a heart attack, which would call for 911 to be notified so they can send an ambulance. its call triage: assessing the degree of urgency of a wound. losing the tip of one finger is NOT the same as losing an arm, just like getting a paper cut is NOT the same as losing the tip of a finger.

yes it is an injury, and yes it needs to be treated, and yes if untreated it could be life threatening (just like breaking your leg can be life threatening), but the time limit for getting it reattached is not 5 minutes or less. she got hurt, its was deemed non-life threatening, her parents were notified of the injury (as opposed to the school just sticking a band-aid on it, telling her to quit her bitching and sending her back to class), and her parents took her to the emergency room to treat her injuries just like my parents took me to the emergency room when i was her age and split my chin open on the playground during recess and needed snitches.

if it was a LIFE THREATENING emergency they would have called 911, but it wasn't life threatening. if they were unable to get in contact with her parents they would have called 911, but they did get in contact with them. the school has established guidelines and procedures, and they followed said guidelines and procedures. and again i'll ask: if it happened at home do you think her parents would have called for an ambulance, or just taken her to the emergency room themselves?

[ritt works hard fo da chickens]

Digits are not limbs.

[shaker]

Honestly, I don't see this being a huge deal. I had worse injuries occur as a kid (knocked out completely by running into an open door) and saw far worse injuries, too (kid fell into a huge pile of rocks, another kid jumped off the roof, 3rd kid put through a glass door and landed stomach first onto broken glass). Only the stomach into glass necessitated an ambulance, too. The other ones? Call the parents, get em to a doctor.

Plus this kid has a good story to tell now, which she'll need since her freaking name is AMAZING.

[wallabylikeyou]

Pfft Amazing Red gets hurt all the time and he never needs 911 called.

[Malcolm]

People saying losing a digit isn't a big deal, you do realize that this is a 6 year old we're talking about and not some uber tough teenager or 13 year old, right?

And on top of that, the school didn't even inform the parents that a piece of her finger was missing(at least that's what I can see from the story).