Arctickat

This guy is gonna try to break the record....

lol, I had a medic just like that working for me a few years back..he has ADHD so tended to speak before thinking quite often. Here are two memorable moments. Mr. Medic is off duty when we get dispatched to the residence of a known end stage cancer patient. My partner and I assessed our client and prepared to transport him to the hospital for palliative care. As the weeping family watched on, my newly hired medic, still on probation, wearing civvies, bursts into the house as we're wheeling our client out of the bedroom and literally calls out across the room, "Did I miss all the fun?" My response to him was a look that would have left nothing but two smoking shoes if it could have and two words, "Go Home." I took the rest of the weekend to cool off and on Monday morning in the office he apologised for his lack of professionalism. He told me he was pretty pissed with me at first, but after he had some time to think it over he had realised what he had done. Event number 2 was a call to a residence of a known ETOH abuser and belligerent drunk. As Mr. Medic walked through the kitchen he noticed something cooking on the stove. He looks over to the patient and asks, "What the hell is that? It looks like something my dog puked up this morning." Mr. Medic barely made it out of the house alive.

Yeah, we wouldn't want her to end up like Amanda Todd now.

Out here the patient gets the bill regardless, although I have been known to cut some a bit of slack, such as the client whose son calls 911 because mom won't answer the phone and he thinks she's dead.

Yeah, and after them it's Gen who-gives-a-crap-Ima on my iphone.

Errrrr, patient was getting herself up off the floor with right side hemiparesis? Most 96 year olds I know can't even get themselves off the floor when they're feeling normal. I smell a red herring.

How many days ago did she fall outta the bed? Is there a 99y/o male hiding under the bed c/o chest pain? Thanks for the tip curiosity.

I thought she was 96 and having a stroke. Whoops, wrong thread....hey...now there's an idea....

And you can pay the $325.00 bill by cash, cheque, or money order. Credit cards are not accepted.

Pericarditis. I love this game!!!

Condoms have been around since the pharaohs of Egypt. She'd probably know what one is.

I've been using them for a while with great success.

I get CNN breaking News alerts in my e-mail: Well, no fricking duh!!!!

Alas, I'm not a mod on this board...otherwise I would have by now.

Probably tell them the same thing I tell people who continue to insist on posting on a duplicate thread after they've already been redirected to the original on this topic.

I tend to introduce myself and my partner while shaking my patient's hand.

Have you guys looked at IVDD troponin tests fir use in the field?

In my experience, the best way to control a belligerent drunk is a petite woman. I'm a second generation medic, both of my parents were EMTs who spent most of their career working together. My mother is 5"1' and might be about 130lbs. They would often come home with stories of how some drunk at a scene would be threatening my father and placing the entire scene at risk until my mother stepped in and took over. She's a pretty good manipulator.

Sorry Mike, no one is listening to you.

Remember to shake hands. Much more is accomplished with a simple handshake than anything else.

Is the book that bad? I thought it was supposed to be funny?

Welcome to the forum, feel fre to join in on any conversations you like, or create one of your own.

:golfclap: Thanks for the recognition and for the great scenario. I've got enough costume jewellery to keep me satisfied for a while though. Nice work Mike. Now, the tough question...how would you alter your treatment for this patient now that you know the full story.

Yeah, there are also Apps for the Android, iCrap, and windoze phones.