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You mean our patients are not text book perfect cases? I am shocked.

"Wackerdom" be damned. I am still not going to wear the joke T-shirt Lady J got me, that says

I have no idea how long BeachRescue has been an EMT. Let's use that as a jump-off point, and I'll try to not make it look like an attack. Someone not in our line of work might think of it as a bad joke, like some LEOs (Law enforcement Officers) might make light of a bad guy getting shot in the butt. I am guessing BeachRescue is a new EMT, as the profile posted states (s)he wants to become a Paramedic and/or LEO, which makes me suspect BeachRescue is a "newbie" in the field, hence, feels it to be a funny story. If that is the case, BeachRescue will eventually become "seasoned", and know when to make jokes, and, obviously, when not to. Sort of a case in point, is the old joke, the long time EMT and Paramedic having a discussion of a particulary gory call they did, in detail, not realizing they are grossing out everyone else at the Burger Barn restaurant where they are having the discussion (mea culpa, I actually did that). As for the NICU/PICU nurse not taking action with the baby having convulsions and turning blue, I would have probably been loud and vulgar in telling her to get the f*** off the phone and do her job, or I'd see to it someone else more deserving had her job tomorrow. Side note: an old girlfriend (former EMT) who had cancer (was a heavy smoker) has been emergency hospitalized for difficulty breathing, and a colleague from FDNY (mentored me when I came into the NYC Municipal 9-1-1/EMS system) was recently told her cancer had reocurred after more than 5 years in remission. Cancer, sure as hell, is NOT funny.

Wow..unreal...I would have some nurse's ass over that.

AMR sucks, tries to take over EMS everywhere they go.......they failed in PA....

As well as working as an emt i also volunteer at the local childrens hospital. On this particular day i was in the room of an 11 year old boy with cancer. He knew he was about to get a shot and thus was giving the nurses, volunteers and his mother a very hard time by kicking and screaming. We tried very hard to calm him down to get the medication into him but he was moving to much.. then all of a sudden he stopped moving, stopped crying stopped screaming ect. everyone in the room went into first gear getting oxygen and checking vitals. After a thorough check we found nothing wrong with him and figured he was faking. I figured the nurses would use smelling salts and he would "wake up" but no, the nurse motioned for us to folllow her out of the room. She told us, go along with this and he will wake up. we walk back in the room and the nurse fooled around with the ekg moniter. The screen showed flat line. She then takes the bed sheet and covers the boy up and looks at the mon with a face that looked very serious and she says "ma'm i am so sorry but I think we have lost your son. The boy all of a sudden jumps up and screams, no mommy no I am alive mommy. After a stern talking to he promised he would never do it again and we were able to give the medication. I think he learned his lesson.