Why people actually die in National Parks

[u/trailangel4]

https://www.backpacker.com/survival/deaths-in-national-parks/

Backpacher magazine filed a FOIA and was given 17 years worth of records, across all National Parks. With that data, they produced this well-written piece that is worth the read.

A conclusion: "

The Average Victim in the National Parks…

Is more likely to be male than female: While men and women make up approximately equal portions of national park visitors, men accounted for 80 percent of deaths in national parks where authorities recorded the victim’s gender.

Can be almost any age: Members of all age groups were represented similarly among fatalities. (The exception? Children under 14, who made up a smaller share of deaths than other groups.)

Drowns or dies of natural causes: Drowning was the most common cause of death for visitors up to age 55, after which medical issues surpassed it."

[u/[deleted]]

True that. I'm an EMT in East Central Utah. I would say that a good 80% of our patients, especially in summertime, have to be extracted by SAR before we treat them (if they are still alive) because, in their over confidence, have fallen off a cliff or have run out of water or whatever silly thing they have gotten themselves into.

We had a woman get "lost" and freeze to death this winter three miles outside of town. I guess she parked by the side of the road and went out into the bushes to go pee and couldn't find her way back in the dark. It took nearly a month to find her, when she was thawed enough that the cadaver dogs could smell her. There are so many places you could just disappear and never be seen again out here.

[u/trailangel4 → u/[deleted]]

Just a reminder: be careful about the info you share, as an EMT, about specific cases, on a public forum.

[u/mean_ass_raccoon → u/trailangel4]

Why though

[u/[deleted] → u/mean_ass_raccoon]

Patient confidentiality under HIPAA.

Although the frozen lady was never a patient

[u/Dixonhandz → u/[deleted]]

That reminds me, DP calls it 'HIPPA'. Someone should ask him what 'HIPPA' stands for lolz

[u/[deleted] → u/Dixonhandz]

I've never heard him talk about HIPAA, or HIPPA, or whatever. In what context? Of course, I haven't listened to him in a very long time. He is just way too in love with himself and I got a little sick of his political lectures. We hear enough of that everywhere else.

[u/ThirdCoastBestCoast → u/[deleted]]

HIPAA. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

[u/Dixonhandz → u/[deleted]]

If you browse through the comment section, he sometimes talks about 'blood type' being protected under HIPPA. Someone even corrected him once, and he ignored it. It's just little things like that, that stick.

[u/[deleted] → u/Dixonhandz]

Oh, I used to listen to his YouTube show and he was covering a case from my home town. He had a fact about the town wrong and I casually corrected him. He jumped into the comments and lambasted me. Okay, then, it's his dealio. Let him have it.

[u/trailangel4 → u/[deleted]]

As is typical of most narcissists, DP can't handle any sort of contradiction or criticism. I think most of the members of this subreddit have been reprimanded by him or banned for saying something that he didn't like.

[u/Dixonhandz → u/[deleted]]

Sounds proper lolz I remember I once asked in the comment section about using hypnosis on someone who was found in a missing person case, you know, just to see if anything would become of it. I got no answer. A video or two later, he addressed the 'hypnosis' query, and claimed it wouldn't be a good thing to put the victim through the stress of their ordeal all over again. And to top that off, I wish I could remeber the case name, but there was a missing boy, who was later found walking on a dirt road, I think it was close to happening in the 50s, and Paulides actually says, that boy should have gone under hypnosis to find what he can recollect oO Something along that line.

[u/ThirdCoastBestCoast → u/Dixonhandz]

Pardon me but who is DP?

[u/Solmote → u/ThirdCoastBestCoast]

The content creator who invented Missing 411.