When a Florida paramedic/firefighter proposed to a woman he saved after she was stabbed 32 times by her ex-boyfriend, it begged the question: When is it OK for a responder to date a victim?
In the case of paramedic/firefighter Cameron Hill and Melissa Dohme, they reconnected 10 months after the incident. And two and a half years later, he got down on one knee and proposed to her at a Tampa Bay Ray’s game.
So, we asked our community what they thought about dating someone they helped on a call.
If you haven’t already, let us know what you think in the comment section below.
- “I had the same discussion with my wife who’s an RN. I think it teeters on crossing an ethical line. She says, “Shut up and be happy for the people who find what they are looking for regardless of circumstances.” — Scott Bravo
- “You can’t help who you fall in love with or where.” — Desiree Edwards
- “This is a funny thing, because Washington State DOH made a rule a few years back that “two years after the ending of the professional medical relationship” was the correct answer for everyone. I think it eventually got vague again.” — Jonathan Clemens
- “I married my husband four years after I picked him up in the middle of the interstate after he crashed his motorcycle.” — Kelly Jennings McCommon
- “Why is it really anyone’s business and even a topic of conversation?” — Marie Glasser
- “As long as personal life doesn’t interfere with professional life, there shouldn’t be an issue.” — Jon Arbogash
- “You have to meet people somewhere.” — Kevin LeClair
- “We need to be vigilant for a psychological phenomenon known as transference, where the person being helped transfers their feelings to the person who helped them. The people we take care of are often in a vulnerable state, and we need to be careful that we are not exploiting that unethically. Just be careful.” — Dominick Walenczak
