article_snippet: In the first incident, an 85-year-old man who collapsed in the queue in a Marks and Spencer store from severe blood poisoning was forced to wait for 20 minutes in the back of an ambulance.
article_snippet: Colella, who failed to turn up at the hearing, had returned to a Marks and Spencer store from severe blood poisoning and came back with two full bags of shopping before driving an 85-year-old man who collapsed in the queue in a Marks and Spencer store from severe blood poisoning to hospital on March 9, 2013.
article_snippet: Yvonne Purves said: 'After a little bit of time I wondered where [Colella] had gone. 'the patient's 'anxious' wife was understandably anxious about what had happened to the patient's 'anxious' wife and was wondering why we weren't leaving to go to hospital. 'an 85-year-old man who collapsed in the queue in a Marks and Spencer store from severe blood poisoning then came back with two full bags of shopping and loaded two full bags of shopping in to the front of the ambulance and flippantly said 'do you want to go to hospital then?'. '
article_snippet: The panel heard how Colella left a patient in an ambulance with a colleague for 20 minutes while Colella did some shopping in a Marks and Spencer (file picture)
article_snippet: Paramedic Donna Blair, who had arrived at the scene first, said she was handing over care of the patient to Colella's colleague when she noticed a nearby shopper looking 'gobsmacked'.