akulahawk

On the California DMV website, there should be an "Ambulance Driver Certificate" manual available. Once on their site, just search for Ambulance Driver Handbook. There's no "behind the wheel" test for this. Read the manual a few times and then go take the exam. The Medical Exam is actually pretty simple. You pick up the forms at the DMV and take them with you to be filled out by the examiner. The DMV keeps the actual form and you end up keeping the examiner's card. The permit and examiner's card must be current for you to legally drive an ambulance. When you go to get your H-6 print out, ask the clerk what the exact process is for getting the Certificate. I know it'll involve being Live Scanned, taking a written exam, and having a medical exam done. There's no behind the wheel exam that I know of. I remember the process being relatively straightforward, and a bit cumbersome, just typical DMV stuff. They might ask to see your EMT or Paramedic license. It's a little expensive (mostly because of the Live Scan, I think) but it shouldn't be prohibitively horrible.

While they are sending x-rays through your body, they're not interested in what's inside you, rather they're interested in making a backscatter image of what's possibly concealed on you. No, it's not a medical procedure. You consent to a search when you buy the ticket to fly commercially. The type of search varies and you can refuse the imaging searches. If you do that and you choose to get on the commercial airplane, you essentially are consenting to a pat-down. If you refuse that, they don't have to allow you into the "sterile area" of the airport. That means, while you're a paying customer, you will miss your flight. Your other 2 options are to fly in a private plane or charter one. While those may use the same runways as the commercial planes, they usually don't have the same search requirements of people flying on those airplanes.

Now to get back to where this topic started from: Where I am at, there are no laws that I am aware of that require an on duty EMS crew, that is not 911, to stop and assist in that situation. Most of the EMS systems that I am familiar with have policies that require EMS crews to stop and assist, some of them require transportation, if necessary, but usually they would have to wait until an on-duty 911 EMS crew to arrive at the scene. Even if there were no such policies, common decency would essentially require them to stop and assist. If I am off duty, not in my ambulance, then I have no such requirement. What I would do in that situation, as an off-duty paramedic, is simply act as a good observer and call 911.