Some ambulances you love, and some you hate. Most are just tools of the trade to us, but today I found myself getting a bit sentimental. Maybe it was the view on the way in this morning:
Anyway, we’re driving The Spare. Her seats [...]
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“Medic 9, take the response. 24 Right in Front of You Drive for the difficulty breathing. Enter through the back door.”
Long Lost Sister and I sign out on scene as the dispatcher finishes talking. By dumb luck, the address truly was Right in Front of Us. Computer [...] I was working last night. No helicopters crashed, nothing blew up, and I certainly did not get laid. In fact, we treated one seizure patient and watched Monday Night Football. Thanks to the magic that is TiVo, I finally got the chance to watch Trauma this afternoon.
I [...] “NowAt 6 am…partly sunny. Temperature around 61. West winds around 10 mph.” Should I be worried that the weather guys don’t know it’s still dark? If they can’t predict the sunrise. . . Happy over at HMHQ penned a ‘HIPAA Friendly Post’ recently. He commented that if he removed anything potentially identifiable (instead of changing it), his resulting posts would look like Mad Libs. I love Mad Libs. Read his post, then come back. I sent the resulting blanks to a few friends, and here are the results. [...] The latest edition of ‘The Handover’ is up over at Ckemtp’s place. This month’s topic is Funniest. Call. Ever., and he has some very good stuff. Enjoy! “Humor me,” I said to Partner du Jour as I pulled a U-turn in the ambulance. I pulled up at an angle, blocking the breakdown lane and right lane of the four-lane road. I activated the primary strobes, grabbed a pair of gloves, and stepped out.
Fluffy lay [...] It’s a cold night of epic proportions. The temperature dips below 0 degrees F. It’s not actively snowing, but a brisk wind stirs the recently fallen snow, obscuring the world outside our plate-glass windows.
I feel like a Civil War era soldier. My issued uniform is woefully inadequate [...] I had a dream. Not in the Martin Luther King sense, but the good old “I was asleep” sense. For background, we have a new private ambulance contract in my town. I’ll call them Company X. I was at home, riding Engine 68 as a call Lt. We were dispatched to a medical; the patient [...] Last week I published a brief rant about drivers doing dumb things in traffic when I approach in my ambulance. The other day I had a wonderful experience. As we approached a major bottleneck intersection, the driver immediately in front of me began to pull to the left, effectively blocking our progress. I reached [...] |
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