David Lee Roth Trains to Become Paramedic

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://launch.yahoo.com/read/news.asp?contentID=220204

Roth, 50, has been riding for several weeks with a New York ambulance crew in training to become a paramedic, The New York Post reported Tuesday. "I have been on over 200 individual rides now," said Roth. "Not once has anyone recognized me, which is perfect for me."

The singer, who spent a decade with Van Halen before embarking on a solo career, except a collaboration with the band for two new songs on a greatest hits album, has been riding along with crews in the Bronx, Manhattan and Brooklyn several nights a week.

His training seems to be going well. Several weeks ago, Roth saved the life of a heart attack victim in the Bronx by using a defibrillator.

He takes his work so seriously that he did not want publicity so that it would not "diminish what I am trying to do here." He has said that he did not want the neighborhoods he was working in named so that he would not draw attention to himself or co-workers.

[billyoc]

1. Bad idea, with the medical "specialty" draft on the way. n/t

[NJ_Lib]

4. Keep him away from the med cabinet....

Seriously though, good for him... !

[RaleighNCDUer]

10. On the contrary --

he is 50. We'll need some trained EMTs here after all the young ones get drafted.

Bully for him.

[KurtNYC]

2. He has long been an advocate for patients' rights

especially his own, as in this quote from the early 1980s:

You better call me a doctor.
Feelin' no pain.
Overloaded, down the drain.
Somebody get me a doctor.
You better call up the ambuance, I'm deep in shock.
Overloaded, baby, I can hardly walk.

Seriously though his father was a doctor - eye surgeon.

[quiet.american]

3. Wow

Who knew he had it in him!

[unblock]

5. that takes something, to START doing that at 50

here's a guy who's got everything except talent, and certainly has no need to put himself in the line of fire.

being a paramedic is much more dangerous than you might think. you get exposed to blood and diseases, sometimes highly contagious. you can go into physically dangerous and/or hazmat situations. you can also, of course, be attacked or shot.

true, he's probably not volunteering in the most dangerous part of town, but domestic calls can happen anywhere. i was on one where dishes were still flying when we got there....

[AntiCoup2K4]

9. Hey, if he can survive those crazy assed Van Halen tours, he can survive..

....domestic violence calls. The man does run with the Devil, after all :evilgrin:

[graywarrior]

6. I think his father or uncle is a doctor in Swampscott MA

[coloradodem2005]

7. Roth trains to be a paramedic.

While Republican Hagar tries to sell tequila.

[ronnykmarshall]

8. Good for Diamond Dave!

Hey about 20 years ago, I won't mind him giving me mouth to mouth.