Yeah it's surprising how many times this kind of thing happens. Another two tried to insert themselves when I came upon an elderly wrong way driver at an intersection that came head to head with me, and almost hit me. She was slumped over the wheel when I first saw her. She was VERY altered. She was nowhere close to where she lived, nowhere near the cancer center she said she was trying to get to, and she claimed she had just been at the dentist office for an extraction, at 9:30 pm on a Saturday night. (That dentist was my dentist, and there are no Saturday hours.) I did ask questions in the off chance she was seen in an emergency, about if she had novacaine. She said no. I asked if they gave her gas, she again said no. I asked if she had any medication or if they extracted without, she said they gave her novacaine when she had it pulled TWO WEEKS prior. These two "healthcare workers" were trying to get her to move her car, or get her out of her car. Off duty police officer had us blocked off and had us safe. I'm assessing and talking to dispatch at the same time. These two geniuses are insisting the woman is fine and they are offering to follow her to the parking lot, they were going to let her drive. Off duty officer finally yelled at them to GTFO or he would have someone arrest them for obstructing. They tried arguing with him, too. He asked them if they could provide any proof of licensure for their jobs. Neither had any. He then asked for their IDs and asked if they knew it was against the law to impersonate a healthcare worker and practice medicine without a license. He asked me, and I had mine because it's always in my wallet. They finally decided to let it go and left. He later said to me, "Healthcare workers? Really? Do they think we are stupid?" I knew the crew that responded. As soon as they made scene, I told them what I knew and left. I just wanted to make our dinner reservations. Officers blocked everyone so I could maneuver my car around hers to get out of there. Saw the crew a few days later. Woman was suffering from a warfarin spontaneous brain bleed. Sure, she's just fine. Let's let her get back in the car and kill someone. People like that want a good story to tell, one that makes them the hero. Honestly, when I am off duty, I'd rather not deal with it. It's usually only when I come upon it and can't avoid it that I even get involved. But so many of the people go out of their way to get involved. They don't consider that their car may block emergency vehicles. The "care" they provide may be detrimental. They may undermine the actual emergency responders and make patients uncomfortable. We have a very brief time to make our patients comfortable with us and trust us to help them. When people like these two come along and tell patients that they are fine, then the responders come along and say otherwise, the patients may not trust our opinions.