You speak of the ambulance bill what about the hospital bill?..Healthcare is so important and I hope you get the charitable care offered by many NH Hospitals and support the affordable care act.
Mrs. McDougall please no one wants to interfere with your personal problems, but unfortunately your husband creative a disturbance by refusing the drivers to take you when you requested it. I just hope you are not suffering because of Mr McDougalls actions. As an Adult women here in the USA you have the privilege to make choices. Don't let Mr McDougall make those choices for you.

This is turning into something along the lines of the gong show !

Get well soon. You and your husband seem to be under a lot of stress. Most good people don't want to cause you or your husband grief
Peace

I believe that what your husband did was completely wrong... You called 911 he didnt You asked for help he didnt... the emergency workers showed and was there for YOU not him .. by him acting this way over a bill before a bill was submitted actually probably cost the town more money and put others at risk by having to involve the police and fire dept when it wasnt necessary which ends up costing taxpayers more money - as a town leader he shouldve known that

@Concerned: Mr McDougall is NOT a town leader, and hopefully after voters reading about his history in the ET today he will no longer be on any town boards.

@Riley Reid even you are a leader for people wanting to feed at a trough filled with hate.
@ Concerned, quite frequently Police and Fire make calls. They are paid to be there by all tax payers. Many off these calls turn out to be false or good intentioned. There was a time when your tax bill covered the ambulance and the employees that maned them. Now we have found money to put in the budget without asking the tax payers directly. If we are running an ambulance company lets go out to bid. If we are running a community service for emergencies lets stop double billing the residents. If the department heads are leading us towards privatization tell the people.

As someone who has much experience with calling 911 due to the medical crisis of someone I was living with, you should know that the firestation offers a hardship application and is easily written off. Maybe there was just a lot of stress however I also know that when an ambulance comes, you can refuse medical help-now I do not know if your circumstance allows for that loophole, you may want to investigate that. I do understand where you're coming from Jane- and not everyone knows of these loopholes. Good luck.

Jen, there are a lot of variables that even the EMS personnel are unaware of. In an emergency minutes can count. A sinus head ache which is being cared for by a physician and also monitored by a spouse creates an unusual "emergency." How professionals handle these calls can vary. What the question should be now is; was this situation allowed to escalate? One of the articles addresses her condition as less than critical and at that point there should have been a discussion. Pulling the I have a badge or do you realize I have authority seems provocative at the least. Now that the smoke is cleared get back to acting like neighbors.

Just reading about this fiasco is giving ME a headache.

Sinuses shouldn't create a migraine headache...it just seems weird....I have severe allergies no migraines. Maybe Patrick and Jane are covering for eachother...maybe she is withdrawing from an opiate addiction...that can cause that kind of migraine...she just seems so...untruthful and...strange in her defense for her husband. I would look into her background not his!!

I agree, also I'm not accusing her...I just agree....I feel like there's something we don't know, but oh well, it is what it is.

she is a hypochondriac and crazy. pulls stuff like this all the time

Its clear to me we have a double standard here.
When the Ganley issue was before the town the alleged wrong doing was never made public although it should have been. That issue through political maneuvering just evaporated with know conclusion except to favor Ganley.
But in this case when it comes to a citizen, public officials in Salem use their authority to bully and intimidate, as a method, to let people know who has the advantage here. We can make your life miserable, make you spend money you don't have, and there is nothing you can do about it. So much for the sense of community that Salem markets itself to enjoy.

@allwhilesalemsleeps, I'm sure my position on employee COLA earned me that status as right leaning, but if you knew me you would know that is not the case. And on the guest list for the pool parties, some how I'll trudge along, as I have so far, without that honor.

When did Breen change parties?