<p>limabeans - absolutely unbelievable! EMTs let him refuse treatment when he had no idea of what happened? The ER doc we saw the next day (after an acute care doc failed to pick up on any of his injuries, other than the broken clavicle) told me immediately, before she even did an exam or head scan that he’d had a concussion due to his amnesia of the event. They knew he hit his head, because I told them I had his helmet in our car in case they wanted to look at it to see where the helmet hit the ground (it had mud on it, as well as some scratches). As I discovered a couple of days later when I took time to really look at the helmet, it was cracked in four places.</p>
<p>I think head injuries are the one situation where someone is not allowed to refuse treatment. People with concussions are not capable of making those kinds of decisions, as I learned, the hard way.</p>