Extra resources are always called for when lifting this type of weight especially when the client's illness requires them to be kept flat.

Yes, the majority of men are physically stronger, but not all and manual handling denotes that we lift smarter, not harder.

How many ambos from the days of lifting heavy weights have back injuries?

Many factors weigh in being that close to "costing you your life", not only your arrival to LGH via ambulance.

FOR real? I'm an Ambulance Tasmania paramedic, and I work with the greatest people, men and women. Each is more than capable to deal with whatever comes their way, both clinically and logistically.

If a 119kg man was on the ground there is absolutely no way of me lifting him either. Zero chance of that.

AMBULANCE Tasmania interim chief executive Joe Acker (The Examiner, March 22) completely missed my point. Never once did I question the capabilities of these dedicated revered female paramedics.

All paramedics have been much-appreciated backbones of the fight against COVID-19, risking their own lives daily.

You are achieving the highest medical requirement of this most necessary service.

But I question your no lift policy, male or female, not all positions can be accessed by electronic stretchers, on that day, if the firemen had that same policy, what happens to me?

I needed immediate hospital attention or die. Is my life the price? This is the first I and many have heard of this policy.

Through health issues, this is the 10th time I have reluctantly had to use this wonderful necessary ambulance service, and every time their magnificent caring attention is off the scale with praise. However, this one time was super serious and nearly cost me my life. You unfairly (and it hurt), claimed disappointment in my right to point out the facts of a life and death situation.

Am I so wrong to want to live?

All paramedics keep up your fantastic work, we cannot do without you.

DRIVING to work while watching a beautiful sunrise, I got to hear about elderly people being advised to call specific numbers if they are being abused, so I paid attention with mounting horror indeed.

What on earth is going on in this world that our aged family/mentors are being victimised by anyone at all?

I got to hear about sites called "1800ELDERHELP, Elder Abuse Helpline, Old Persons Advocacy Network and the list grew.

I read the news and articles about this but was not aware that it has become a calamity that we all need to address immediately.

What is happening that our wonderful aged population is being physically, sexually, emotionally, financially, materialistically abused, abandoned and neglected?

These people taught us most if not all that we know and grew to love. We shared their food and sought them when sad or angry.

They taught us how to eat with spoons and laugh at ourselves and now they are needing protection from the very people they loved and raised. Please protect this travesty from becoming the norm.

IT IS rather sad to view art today because it is usually copied from photographs not from 3D. Such works can be identified by the colourless shadows and washed out lights.

The cause of this is the aperture of the camera does not open wider for the shadows nor reduce for the lights. There is also a lack of 3D qualities because of the copiest's inability to translate from 3D.and conceive the sculptural qualities. The Glover, the Archibald and countless other art prizes and exhibitions are littered with illustrative photographic fake art merely banausic copies devoid of a genuine response to nature.

LABOR again is declaring itself against people working.

Its declaration that it is against the protection of workplaces against protesters is typical of the Labor/Green mantra.

Everybody has the right to work free of onsite protests especially those galahs that chain themselves or use glue to stop work on many worksites.

SUE Hickey has runs on the board.

She has the experience of local government and as City of Hobart mayor.

She has served ably as Speaker and I would hope that she will be returned to Parliament as an independent.

The Liberal Party is intent on getting newly elected members, no matter what their experience is. They are interested only in "background nodders''.

HARNESS racing driver Gavin Kelly has been issued a fine of $1000 for not carrying a whip. He was told to carry a whip "on safety grounds", but that he didn't have to use it (The Examiner, March 17).

Racing Minister Jane Howlett has stated that Harness Racing Australia "has reaffirmed its commitment to the removal of the use of whips in harness racing".

So "safety grounds" would appear to be a smokescreen to cover the real reason for fining a driver as opposed to the whipping of horses for possible financial gain.