To me the most stupid and at the same time most amusing thing that was told to me while doing my last first aid course was: If you have to deal with an emergency, the beter trained you are the more likely you are to be faced with a lawsuit. Basically the way the law works (at least in my country) if you are someone operating in an unoficial capacity (say a paramedic / doctor / nurse off duty at the time) and you assist in a situation as you would if you were a lay-person then chances are you will end up facing a law suit at the end of it, because of potential mishaps. If your are a totally untrained person (i.e. without qualifications) then you will not receave such lawsuits as you are not expected to know beter. The result ofwhich is that the law encourages people who have zero medical training to help out in an emergency situation, and punishes people who do have medical training by allowing them to be subject to lawsuits that would otherwise not effect them if they had not receaved such training (which is probably the on ething that gives them the ability to actually help in such a situation). One of my friends is a registered nurse and she has been told specifically by a superior that if an incedent occurs while she is off duty, she should ignore it, because she would end up being filed against if she attempted to help in anyway. I'm sorry but I find this sort of situation ludicrous.

Aparently the only solution is to get trained but refuse any form of qualification, that way you have the knowledge to help out, but without any qualifications you don't run the risk of a law suit